Optimal estimates of the field enhancement in presence of a bow-tie structure of perfectly conducting inclusions in two dimensions

Abstract

This paper deals with the field enhancement, that is, the gradient blow-up, due to presence of a bow-tie structure of perfectly conducting inclusions in two dimensions. The bow-tie structure consists of two disjoint bounded domains which have corners with possibly different aperture angles. The domains are parts of cones near the vertices, and they are nearly touching to each other. We characterize the field enhancement using explicit functions and, as consequences, derive optimal estimates of the gradient in terms of the distance between two inclusions and aperture angles of the corners. The estimates show that the field is enhanced beyond the corner singularities due to the interaction between two inclusions.