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We study the field concentration phenomenon between two closely spaced perfect conductors with imperfect bonding interfaces of low conductivity type. The boundary condition on these interfaces is given by a Robin-type boundary condition. We…
This paper concerns optimal gradient estimates of solutions for the perfect conductivity problem with closely spaced interfacial boundaries. The problem arises from composite material. Our estimates exhibit different blow up rates of the…
In this paper, we investigate the gradient estimates for solutions to the perfect conductivity problem with two closely spaced perfect conductors embedded in a homogeneous matrix, modeled by $p$-Laplacian elliptic equations. We first prove…
We study the insulated conductivity problem with inclusions embedded in a bounded domain in $\mathbb R^n$, for $n \ge 3$. The gradient of solutions may blow up as $\varepsilon$, the distance between inclusions, approaches to $0$. We…
In high-contrast composite materials, the electric field concentration is a common phenomenon when two inclusions are close to touch. It is important from an engineering point of view to study the dependence of the electric field on the…
When a convex perfectly conducting inclusion is closely spaced to the boundary of the matrix domain, a bigger convex domain containing the inclusion, the electric field can be arbitrary large. We establish both the pointwise upper bound and…
We consider a gradient estimate for a conductivity problem whose inclusions are two neighboring insulators in three dimensions. When inclusions with an extreme conductivity (insulators or perfect conductors) are closely located, the…
In this paper we study the boundary gradient estimate of the solution to the insulated conductivity problem with the Neumann boundary data when a convex insulating inclusion approaches the boundary of the matrix domain. The gradient of…
We study the insulated conductivity problem which involves two adjacent convex insulators embedded in a bounded domain. It is known that the gradient of solutions may blow up as the distance between the two inclusions tends to zero.…
We study the perfect conductivity problem when two perfectly conducting inclusions are closely located to each other in an anisotropic background medium. We establish optimal upper and lower gradient bounds for the solution in any dimension…
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…
We study the gradient and higher order derivative estimates for the transmission problem in the presence of closely located inclusions. We show that in two dimensions, when relative conductivities of circular inclusions have different…
We study the insulated conductivity problem with inclusions embedded in a bounded domain in $\mathbb{R}^n$. It was known that in the setting of strictly convex inclusions, the gradient of solutions may blow up as the distance between…
In this paper, we study the perfect and the insulated conductivity problems with multiple inclusions imbedded in a bounded domain in $\mathbb{R}^n, n\ge 2$. For these two extreme cases of the conductivity problems, the gradients of their…
In the perfect conductivity problem, it is interesting to study whether the electric field can become arbitrarily large or not, in a narrow region between two adjacent perfectly conducting inclusions. In this paper, we show that the…
The purpose of this paper is to set out optimal gradient estimates for solutions to the isotropic conductivity problem in the presence of adjacent conductivity inclusions as the distance between the inclusions goes to zero and their…
In high-contrast composite materials, the electric (or stress) field may blow up in the narrow region between inclusions. The gradient of solutions depend on $\epsilon$, the distance between the inclusions, where $\epsilon$ approaches to…
We consider the insulated conductivity problem with two unit balls as insulating inclusions, a distance of order $\varepsilon$ apart. The solution $u$ represents the electric potential. In dimensions $n \ge 3$ it is an open problem to find…
We study the insulated conductivity problem with inclusions embedded in a bounded domain in $\mathbb{R}^n$. The gradient of solutions may blow up as $\varepsilon$, the distance between inclusions, approaches to $0$. It was known that the…
We consider an insulated conductivity model with two neighboring inclusions of $m$-convex shapes in $\mathbb{R}^{d}$ when $m\geq2$ and $d\geq3$. We establish the pointwise gradient estimates for the insulated conductivity problem and…