Electromagnetic Properties of Multiphase Dielectrics

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY: T. I. Zohdi is currently Professor and Vice Chair for Instruction in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Chair of the Engineering Science Program at UC Berkeley. He  received his  Ph.D. in 1997 in Computational and Applied Mathematics from UT Austin and his Habilitation in Mechanics from the Leibniz Universitaet in  Hannover, Germany in 2002. His main research interests are in micromechanical material design, particulate flow and  the mechanics  of  high-strength fabric, with and emphasis on computational approaches for  nonconvex multiscale-multiphysics inverse problems, particularly addressing the crucial issue of how large numbers of microconstituents interact to produce macroscale aggregate behavior. He published over 85 archival refereed journal papers and four books. In 2000,  he  received the Zienkiewicz Prize and the Medal, and in 2003,he received the Junior Achievement Award for the American Academy of Mechanics. He is a Fellow of the United States Association for Computational Mechanics (USACM) and the International Association for Computational Mechanics (IACM), and is  currently  Vice President of USACM, and will become the USACM President in 2012.

• Multiphase continua, an introduction.- Elementary notation and mathematical operations.- Governing electromagnetics: Maxwell’s equations.- Classical linear constitutive behavior.- Extraction of macroscopic effective properties.- Coupled effects: Joule-heating.- Some basic principles of continuum mechanics.- Basic time-stepping schemes.- A model problem: dielectrics undergoing multifield processes.- Concluding remarks and emerging applications in the biological sciences.

From the book reviews: "In this succinct monograph, the author provides readers with a clear idea of how to derive and numerically solve coupled systems involving electromagnetic, thermal, mechanical and chemical processes. The book consists of 10 chapters. ... this book is well written and should be interesting to a wide spectrum of researchers and students in the physical sciences, engineering and applied mathematics." (JiChun Li, Mathematical Reviews, August, 2014)