Magnetoelectric Green's functions and their application to the inclusion and inhomogeneity problems

Explicit expressions of magnetoelectric Green's functions are obtained for a transversely isotropic medium exhibiting coupling between the static electric and magnetic fields utilizing the contour integral representation. Four Green's functions exist which represent the coupled static electric and magnetic response to a unit point electric or magnetic charge. The Green's functions are applied to analyze the inclusion and inhomogeneity problems in an infinite magnetoelectric medium, and explicit, closed form expressions are obtained for the Eshelby type tensors. The magnetoelectric Eshelby's tensors can be readily used in the solution of numerous problems in the mechanics and physics of magnetoelectric solids. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.