The effective conductivity of arrays of squares: Large random unit cells and extreme contrast ratios

DOI10.1016/J.JCP.2011.05.032MaRDI QIDQ654566zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Johan Helsing

Publication date 29 December 2011

Published in Journal of Computational Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1106.1767

zbMATH Keywords

integral equationhomogenizationmetamaterialfast solverrandom checkerboard

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Preconditioners for iterative methods (65F08) Iterative numerical methods for linear systems (65F10) Numerical computation of solutions to systems of equations (65H10) Electro- and magnetostatics (78A30) Finite difference methods applied to problems in optics and electromagnetic theory (78M20) Composite media; random media in optics and electromagnetic theory (78A48) Fredholm integral equations (45B05)

Abstract: An integral equation based scheme is presented for the fast and accurate computation of effective conductivities of two-component checkerboard-like composites with complicated unit cells at very high contrast ratios. The scheme extends recent work on multi-component checkerboards at medium contrast ratios. General improvement include the simplification of a long-range preconditioner, the use of a banded solver, and a more efficient placement of quadrature points. This, together with a reduction in the number of unknowns, allows for a substantial increase in achievable accuracy as well as in tractable system size. Results, accurate to at least nine digits, are obtained for random checkerboards with over a million squares in the unit cell at contrast ratio 10^6. Furthermore, the scheme is flexible enough to handle complex valued conductivities and, using a homotopy method, purely negative contrast ratios. Examples of the accurate computation of resonant spectra are given.

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