UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – A new book coauthored by Akhlesh Lakhtakia, Charles Godfrey Binder Professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics at Penn State, offers a bird’s‐eye view of currently available homogenization formalisms for particulate composite materials.
Lakhtakia co-wrote the text, titled “Modern Analytical Electromagnetic Homogenization,” with Tom G. Mackay from the University of Edinburgh’s School of Mathematics.
Electromagnetic homogenization is the process of estimating the effective electromagnetic properties of composite materials in the long wavelength regime, wherein the length scales of nonhomogeneities are much smaller than the wavelengths involved.
Suitable for graduate students and postdoctoral scholars as well as senior researchers, the book presents analytical methods with a focus on the general settings of anisotropy and bianisotropy.
It is available online at the IOPscience website.