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Asymptotic behaviour of the capacity in two-dimensional heterogeneous media

Analysis of PDEs 2022-06-14 v1 Optimization and Control

Abstract

We describe the asymptotic behaviour of the minimal inhomogeneous two-capacity of small sets in the plane with respect to a fixed open set Ω\Omega. This problem is governed by two small parameters: ε\varepsilon, the size of the inclusion (which is not restrictive to assume to be a ball), and δ\delta, the period of the inhomogeneity modelled by oscillating coefficients. We show that this capacity behaves as Clog\e1C|\log\e|^{-1}. The coefficient CC is explicitly computed from the minimum of the oscillating coefficient and the determinant of the corresponding homogenized matrix, through a harmonic mean with a proportion depending on the asymptotic behaviour of logδ/logε|\log\delta|/|\log\varepsilon|.

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@article{arxiv.2206.06093,
  title  = {Asymptotic behaviour of the capacity in two-dimensional heterogeneous media},
  author = {Andrea Braides and Giuseppe Cosma Brusca},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2206.06093},
  year   = {2022}
}