Geometric series expansion of the Neumann-Poincar\'{e} operator: application to composite materials

TL;DR

This paper develops a geometric series expansion of the Neumann-Poincaré operator in two dimensions and applies it to analyze the properties of composite materials, including explicit formulas for polarization tensors and effective conductivities.

Contribution

It introduces a new series expansion approach for the Neumann-Poincaré operator and derives explicit formulas for polarization tensors and conductivities of arbitrary shaped inclusions.

Findings

Explicit formulas for polarization tensors and effective conductivities.

Numerical evidence of spectral monotonicity with shape deformation.

Inequality relations for Riemann mapping coefficients.

Abstract

The Neumann-Poincar\'{e} operator, a singular integral operator on the boundary of a domain, naturally appears when one solves a conductivity transmission problem via the boundary integral formulation. Recently, a series expression of the Neumann-Poincar\'{e} operator was developed in two dimensions based on geometric function theory. In this paper, we investigate geometric properties of composite materials by using this series expansion. In particular, we obtain explicit formulas for the polarization tensor and the effective conductivity for an inclusion or a periodic array of inclusions of arbitrary shape with extremal conductivity, in terms of the associated exterior conformal mapping. Also, we observe by numerical computations that the spectrum of the Neumann--Poincar\'{e} operator has a monotonic behavior with respect to the shape deformation of the inclusion. Additionally, we derive inequality relations of the coefficients of the Riemann mapping of an arbitrary Lipschitz domain by using the properties of the polarization tensor corresponding to the domain.