Willis-type thermal homogenization for particulate composites under harmonic heat transfer
Abstract
This paper develops a Willis-type thermal homogenization framework for two-dimensional particulate composites under harmonic heat transfer and establishes a unique effective constitutive relation without introducing residual fields. The local thermal fields are obtained using the dual-reciprocity inclusion-based boundary element method, in which two eigen-fields are introduced to simulate the mismatches in thermal conductivity and heat capacity. Instead of retrieving effective kernels from several independent macroscopic solutions generated by residual fields, the complete constitutive operator is constructed upon relations between eigen-fields and generalized macroscopic responses. The effective constitutive relations are validated against a one-dimensional analytical solution and an extended Fourier-series homogenization scheme. The Fourier formulae further establish the opposite-wavenumber reciprocity relations between two coupling tensors and reflection-symmetry parity relations, which explain when transverse coupling components vanish and the sign reversal of off-diagonal conductivity components under reflection. Numerical results further demonstrate that the de-phased average is required to extract physically consistent effective thermal properties under the Bloch conditions, and reveal their nonlocal frequency/wavenumber-dependent behavior. The framework provides a general computational method for Willis-type homogenization of particulate composites and is extendable to three-dimensional, multiphysical problems.
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BibTeX
@misc{wu2026willistype,
title = {{Willis-type thermal homogenization for particulate composites under harmonic heat transfer}},
author = {Chunlin Wu and Ning Ding and Huiming Yin},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2610.17245},
eprint = {2610.17245},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.17245},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Willis-type thermal homogenization for particulate composites under harmonic heat transfer
AU - Chunlin Wu
AU - Ning Ding
AU - Huiming Yin
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/10/12
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2610.17245
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.17245
AB - This paper develops a Willis-type thermal homogenization framework for two-dimensional particulate composites under harmonic heat transfer and establishes a unique effective constitutive relation without introducing residual fields. The local thermal fields are obtained using the dual-reciprocity inclusion-based boundary element method, in which two eigen-fields are introduced to simulate the mismatches in thermal conductivity and heat capacity. Instead of retrieving effective kernels from several independent macroscopic solutions generated by residual fields, the complete constitutive operator is constructed upon relations between eigen-fields and generalized macroscopic responses. The effective constitutive relations are validated against a one-dimensional analytical solution and an extended Fourier-series homogenization scheme. The Fourier formulae further establish the opposite-wavenumber reciprocity relations between two coupling tensors and reflection-symmetry parity relations, which explain when transverse coupling components vanish and the sign reversal of off-diagonal conductivity components under reflection. Numerical results further demonstrate that the de-phased average is required to extract physically consistent effective thermal properties under the Bloch conditions, and reveal their nonlocal frequency/wavenumber-dependent behavior. The framework provides a general computational method for Willis-type homogenization of particulate composites and is extendable to three-dimensional, multiphysical problems.
ER -