Equivalent transmission conditions for the time-harmonic Maxwell equations in 3D for a medium with a highly conductive thin sheet (Q2810048)

The authors consider the time-harmonic Maxwell equations in a 3-dimensional domain with a thin conducting layer of thickness of order \(\varepsilon\) inside the domain. By using a multiscale expansion, the authors derive formally the asymptotic limits of order 1 and 2. The transition conditions on the midsurface of the thin layer involve generalized Poincaré-Steklov maps between tangential components of the magnetic field and the electric field, and involve second order surface differential operators. It would be interesting to study further the limiting problems involving the transmission conditions derived in this paper and examine rigorously the convergence of the solutions of the original problem near the thin layer as \(\varepsilon\to 0\).