Asymptotic behavior of thin ferroelectric materials (Q2642789)

Summary: We are dealing with the model of ferroelectric materials that has been introduced by \textit{J. M. Greenberg, R. C. MacCamy} and \textit{C. V. Coffman} [Physica D 134, No. 3, 362--383 (1999; Zbl 0980.78008)]. We suppose that the ferroelectric material occupies a thin cylinder with regular cross section and small thickness \(\nu>0\) and give the limit model as \(\nu\) goes to \(0\). Linear and nonlinear potentials are considered. In both cases, one notices that the limit problem is sensitive to the choice of the boundary conditions. We observe that Silver-Müller boundary conditions induce new terms in the limit problems.