Precise estimates of the field excited by an emitter in presence of closely located inclusions of a bow-tie shape

Abstract

This paper studies in a quantitatively precise manner the field enhancement due to presence of an emitter of the dipole type near the bow-tie structure of perfectly conducting inclusions in the two-dimensional space. We put special emphasis on field enhancement near vertices of the bow-tie structure, and derive upper and lower bounds of the gradient blow-up there. All three different kinds of symmetries are considered by varying locations and directions of the emitter, and a different estimate is derived for each case.