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Homogenization, which reduces the cost of numerical simulations in materials with repetitive structure, is a promising approach to the design o metamaterials. This cost reduction stems from the possibility to compute effectiv permeability and permittivity of an equivalent homogenized material by solving an auxiliary “cell problem” on the generating cell of the metamaterial. The firs part of this paper is a tutorial, where the procedure is described in the context o the exploitation of symmetry via harmonic analysis, and justified by an appropriat asymptotic result when the size of the cell is small enough. The second part argue that this standard approach can fail, and explains how it does, when a second smal parameter, besides the cell's size, is present in the physical situation. This i precisely what happens in the case of an array of split rings, where the slit's width competes, so to speak, with the cell's size in the passage to the limit that leads to the cell problem. We show how this competition must be arbitrated in order to recover the negative effective permeability one may expect, on physical grounds near some resonant frequency, in the case of a split-rings array. A simplified model, amenable to analytical computation, illustrates this “frequency dependen homogenization” procedure.
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Bossavit, A. (2009). Homogenization of Split-Ring Arrays, Seen as the Exploitation of Translational Symmetry. In: Zouhdi, S., Sihvola, A., Vinogradov, A.P. (eds) Metamaterials and Plasmonics: Fundamentals, Modelling, Applications. NATO Science for Peace and Security Series B: Physics and Biophysics. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9407-1_6
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