MULTICOMPONENT PERCOLATION - PROBABILISTIC PROPERTIES AND APPLICATIONTO NONISOTHERMAL REACTIONS IN GRANULAR-MATERIALS

Multicomponent percolation schemes are introduced and discussed. They represent a generalization of usual percolation models to an arbitrary number of species. A detailed analysis of the probabilistic propertie s of multicomponent percolation is developed and extended to a non-num erable (continuous) distribution of species. Some initial results on t ransport properties are presented. The connection between multicompone nt percolation models and (chemical) reaction schemes in granular mate rials is analyzed in detail and an application to exothermal self-prop agating reactions proposed.