Continuum Percolation Models of Composite Materials: Conductivity of Conductive Medium Containing Insulating Needles

Abstract

The research for my Senior Individualized Project was performed in a research assistantship in the Condensed Matter Physics Branch of the Physics/Astronomy Department of Michigan State University. The majority of our research was performed via computer simulations. All of our simulations were written in FORTRAN on both the VAX 8650 of the Physics/Astronomy department and the IBM 3090 at Michigan State University. Some of the program listings for the simulations, including documentation, are presented in Appendices A and B.