Convergence Relative to a Microstructure : Properties, Optimal Bounds and Application

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Authors Tuhin Ghosh, Muthusamy Vanninathan

Publication date 16 August 2016

Published in arXiv

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Optimal statistical designs (62K05) Bounds on effective properties in solid mechanics (74Q20) Composite media; random media in optics and electromagnetic theory (78A48) Homogenization in optics and electromagnetic theory (78M40)

arXiv classification

math.AP

Abstract: In this work, we study a new notion involving convergence of microstructures represented by matrices $B^{e}psilon$ related to the classical $H$-convergence of $A^{e}psilon$. It incorporates the interaction between the two microstructures. This work is about its effects on various aspects : existence, examples, optimal bounds on emerging macro quantities, application etc. Five among them are highlighted below : $(1)$ The usual arguments based on translated inequality, $H$-measures, Compensated Compactness etc for obtaining optimal bounds are not enough. Additional compactness properties are needed. $(2)$ Assuming two-phase microstructures, the bounds define naturally four optimal regions in the phase space of macro quantities. The classically known single region in the self-interacting case , namely $B^{e}psilon=A^{e}psilon$ can be recovered from them, a result that indicates we are dealing with a true extension of the $mathcalG$-closure problem. $(3)$ Optimality of the bounds is not immediate because of (a priori) non-commutativity of macro-matrices, an issue not present in the self-interacting case. Somewhat surprisingly though, commutativity follows a posteriori. $(4)$ From the application to "Optimal Oscillation-Dissipation Problems", it emerges that oscillations and dissipation can co-exist optimally and the microstructures behind them need not be the same though they are closely linked. Furthermore, optimizers are found among $N$-rank laminates with interfaces. This is a new feature. $(5)$ Explicit computations in the case of canonical microstructures are performed, in which we make use of $H$-measure in a novel way.

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