ON THE HOMOGENIZATION OF MAXWELL EQUATIONS

Abstract

We discuss the following general problem: given a composite, made from at least two different materials with each its own (scalar, and possibly complex‐valued) ε and μ, distributed in space in a regular, crystal‐like, pattern, find the equivalent permittivity and permeability (they will, in general, be tensors). This is homogenization. A computation in which such repetitive composites are present can then be done by simply replacing these with their equivalent, homogenized, materials.

Citation

Bossavit, A. (1995), "ON THE HOMOGENIZATION OF MAXWELL EQUATIONS", COMPEL - The international journal for computation and mathematics in electrical and electronic engineering, Vol. 14 No. 4, pp. 23-26. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb051906