Abstract: Rainfall data collected by radar in the vicinity of Darwin, Australia, have been analysed in terms of their mean, variance, autocorrelation of area-averaged rain rate, and diurnal variation. It is found that, when compared ...

Abstract: We investigate the effective elastic properties of disordered heterogeneous materials whose Young's modulus varies spatially as a lognormal random field. For one, two, and threedimensional (1D, 2D, and 3D) rectangular ...

Abstract: We investigate the elastic effective modulus Eeff of twodimensional checkerboard specimens in which square tiles are randomly assigned to one of two component phases. This is a model system for a wide class of multiphase ...