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In this paper, we consider very high concentration of electric field in between infinitely many circular perfect conductors arranged closely in two rows. In stiff fiber-reinforced composite, shear stress concentrations occur in between…
The perfect conductivity problem concerns optimal bounds for the magnitude of an electric field in the presence of almost touching perfect conductors. This reduces to obtaining gradient estimates for harmonic functions with Dirichlet…
The insulated and perfect conductivity problems arising from high-contrast composite materials are considered in all dimensions. The solution and its gradient, respectively, represent the electric potential and field. The novelty of this…
We consider the problem of recovering an isotropic conductivity outside some perfectly conducting or insulating inclusions from the interior measurement of the magnitude of one current density field $|J|$. We prove that the conductivity…
We consider a boundary value problem for the conductivity equation in a bounded domain containing an inclusion which is nearly touching to the domain's boundary. We assume that the domain and the inclusion are disks with conductivity jump…
This paper is devoted to establishing the pointwise upper and lower bounds estimates of the gradient of the solutions to a class of general elliptic systems with H\"{o}lder continuous coefficients in a narrow region where the upper and…
For two neighbouring stiff inclusions, the stress, which is the gradient of a solution to the Lam\'{e} system of linear elasticity, may exhibit singular behavior as the distance between these two inclusions becomes arbitrarily small. In…
We study the insulated conductivity problem with closely spaced insulators embedded in a homogeneous matrix where the current-electric field relation is the power law $J = |E|^{p-2}E$. The gradient of solutions may blow up as $\varepsilon$,…
We study the perfect conductivity problem with closely spaced perfect conductors embedded in a homogeneous matrix where the current-electric field relation is the power law $J=\sigma|E|^{p-2}E$. The gradient of solutions may be arbitrarily…
If stiff inclusions are closely located, then the stress, which is the gradient of the solution, may become arbitrarily large as the distance between two inclusions tends to zero. In this paper we investigate the asymptotic behavior of the…
This paper presents a rigorous mathematical analysis of transverse electromagnetic (EM) field concentration between two adjacent obstacles within the framework of the quasi-static approximation. We investigate three degenerate conductivity…
Consider the diffusive Hamilton-Jacobi equation $$u_t-\Delta u=|\nabla u|^p+h(x)\ \ \text{ in } \Omega\times(0,T)$$ with Dirichlet conditions, which arises in stochastic control problems as well as in KPZ type models. We study the question…
When perfectly conducting or insulating inclusions are closely located, stress which is the gradient of the solution to the conductivity equation can be arbitrarily large as the distance between two inclusions tends to zero. It is important…
In this paper, the insulated conductivity model with two touching or close-to-touching inclusions is considered in $\mathbb{R}^{d}$ with $d\geq3$. We establish the pointwise upper bounds on the gradient of the solution for the generalized…
We investigate higher derivative estimates for the Lam\'e system with hard inclusions embedded in a bounded domain in $\mathbb{R}^{d}$. As the distance $\varepsilon$ between two closely spaced hard inclusions approaches zero, the stress in…
Lower bounds are obtained on the maximum field strength in one or both phases in a body containing two-phases. These bounds only incorporate boundary data that can be obtained from measurements at the surface of the body, and thus may be…
Performance of optimization on quadratic problems sensitively depends on the low-lying part of the spectrum. For large (effectively infinite-dimensional) problems, this part of the spectrum can often be naturally represented or approximated…
In this paper we investigate the stress concentration problem that occurs when two convex rigid particles are closely immersed in a fluid flow. The governing equations for the fluid flow are the stationary incompressible Navier-Stokes…
Inspired by the discovery of superconductivity in moir\'e materials with isolated narrow bandwidth electronic bands, here we analyze critically the question of what is the maximum attainable $T_c$ in interacting flat-band systems. We focus…
We consider a large number of randomly dispersed spherical, identical, perfectly conducting inclusions (of infinite conductivity) in a bounded domain. The host medium's conductivity is finite and can be inhomogeneous. In the dilute limit,…