Eigenvalues of the Neumann-Poincaré Operator for Two Inclusions with Contact of Order $m$: A Numerical Study

Eigenvalues of the Neumann-Poincaré Operator for Two Inclusions with Contact of Order $m$:  A Numerical Study

Year:    2018

Author:    Eric Bonnetier, Faouzi Triki, Chun-Hsiang Tsou

Journal of Computational Mathematics, Vol. 36 (2018), Iss. 1 : pp. 17–28

Abstract

In a composite medium that contains close-to-touching inclusions, the pointwise values of the gradient of the voltage potential may blow up as the distance $δ$ between some inclusions tends to 0 and as the conductivity contrast degenerates. In a recent paper [9], we showed that the blow-up rate of the gradient is related to how the eigenvalues of the associated Neumann-Poincaré operator converge to $±\frac{1}{2}$ as $δ$ → 0, and on the regularity of the contact. Here, we consider two connected 2-D inclusions, at a distance $δ$ › 0 from each other. When $δ$ = 0, the contact between the inclusions is of order $m ≥ 2$. We numerically determine the asymptotic behavior of the first eigenvalue of the Neumann-Poincaré operator, in terms of $δ$ and $m$, and we check that we recover the estimates obtained in [10].

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Journal Article Details

Publisher Name:    Global Science Press

Language:    English

DOI:    https://doi.org/10.4208/jcm.1607-m2016-0543

Journal of Computational Mathematics, Vol. 36 (2018), Iss. 1 : pp. 17–28

Published online:    2018-01

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Copyright:    COPYRIGHT: © Global Science Press

Pages:    12

Keywords:    Elliptic equations Eigenvalues Numerical approximation.

Author Details

Eric Bonnetier

Faouzi Triki

Chun-Hsiang Tsou

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