Abstract
This report investigates various aspects of modelling a composite material using randomly packed cylinders in 3d space. In particular it considers: simulating configurations of non-intersecting cylinders; generating weighted networks from such simulations, including calculation of minimal cylinder separation distances; estimating the conductance or resistivity of such a network. This is based on work carried out during the ESGI165 Study Group at Durham University, April 2021.
Acknowledgement: This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 764850 (SAGEX). This is paper SAGEX-21-25.
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