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The cuboid correlation function1.nb |
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By C. Herrmann & W. Gille, 1999: This is a representation of the structure functions , p(r) and A(l) of a cuboid with edges by means of a Mathematica program.
- The complete expressions for
. Eight r-intervals are considered and simple checks are performed.
- An application of the
expression: Determination of the chord length distribution density A(l,a,b,c) of the cuboid.
- Plots of
, p(r,a,b,c) and A(l,a,b,c) in a special case: Fixed edges a=3, b=4, c=5 are considered.
1.Definitions of the expressions for and simple checks.
The in the eight r-intervals are defined.
Display of all gama terms
All the -terms are available in detail. Each term is restricted to a certain r-interval. Eight r-intervals are necessary. In these expressions no abbreviations are used.


















A test is performed to check the definition
The space diagonal L is the largest dimension of the cuboid. holds. Analytically this can be shown by the following lines. Here, exclusively the expression gama7 is used.
Similarly, it can be shown, that is a continuous function. All endpoints of the r-intervals, for example , must be considered then.



2. Determination of the chord length distribution density A(l,a,b,c) of the cuboid

All A-terms are restricted to certain r-intervals. Based on , again, eight r-intervals are necessary.

Now, the definition of A(l,a,b,c) in all possible l-intervals.

This is a test of the normalization of the chord length distribution in a case a=1, b=2, c=3. The theoretical result is 1.0





3. Plots of , A(l,a,b,c) and p(r,a,b,c)
First, the graphical representation of a cuboid is defined.
Next, a graphical combination of cuboid , correlation function and the chord length distribution density is constructed.


Fig. 1: The correlation function (c.f.) and the chord length distribution density (c.l.d.) of a cuboid The positions of the three spikes A, B, C in the chord length distribution clearly mark the edges a,b,c of the cuboid.
On the other hand, the maximum particle dimension cannot be detected via A(l,a,b,c).
The correlation function is a continuous function in the whole r-interval . holds, if .
Finally the distance distribtion densities of cuboid and sphere are compared.


Fig. 2: The p(r) function of a cuboid and of a sphere with the same maximum dimension L The length cannot be detected exactly in such a plot.
In the case of a spherical particle, the L-estimation can be handled by differentiation of . This method does not work in the cuboid case. Here, the L-estimation is relatively complicated.
This is a consequence of the corners of this geometric figure.
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