Statistics of Random Media

We define random media as certain stochastic processes and consider briefly the question of whether a consistent subfamily of distribution functions can be extended to obtain a stochastic process characterizing a random medium. We define and discuss the “statistical geometry” of “two-phase” random media and “symmetric” random media. We also review certain aspects of random subdivisions of space into crystals, radiation scattering from particulate assemblies such as random packings of rigid spheres and percolation processes in random crystals and random networks.