Download or read book An Introduction to Homogenization written by Doïna Cioranescu and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 1999 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Composite materials are widely used in industry: well-known examples of this are the superconducting multi-filamentary composites which are used in the composition of optical fibres. Such materials are complicated to model, as different points in the material will have different properties. The mathematical theory of homogenization is designed to deal with this problem, and hence is used to model the behaviour of these important materials. This book provides a self-contained and authoritative introduction to the subject for graduates and researchers in the field.