Asymptotic modelling of conductive thin sheets (Q638684)

The authors derive and analyse models to reduce conducting sheets in two dimensions of small thickness \(\epsilon\) to an interface and to approximate the shielding behaviour by interface conditions. They investigate the asymptotics of constant shielding for \(\epsilon \to 0\) by scaling the conductivity as \(1/\epsilon\). Hierarchical coupled problems are derived which leads to well-defined expansions functions of each order for smooth sheets. The models of the first three orders are explicitly given. In numerical experiments for a domain with an ellipsoidal shield, the modelling error, the differences between the exact model and the asymptotic expansion models is investigated.