Microwave thermal processing of metal powders has recently been a topic of a substantial interest; however, experimental data on the physical properties of mixtures involving metal particles are often unavailable. In this paper, we perform a systematic analysis of classical and contemporary models of complex permittivity of mixtures and discuss the use of these models for determining effective permittivity of dielectric matrices with metal inclusions. Results from various mixture and core-shell mixture models are compared to experimental data for a titanium/stearic acid mixture and a boron nitride/graphite mixture (both obtained through the original measurements), and for a tungsten/Teflon mixture (from literature). We find that for certain experiments, the average error in determining the effective complex permittivity using Lichtenecker's, Maxwell Garnett's, Bruggeman's, Buchelnikov's, and Ignatenko's models is about 10%. This suggests that, for multiphysics computer models describing the processing of metal powder in the full temperature range, input data on effective complex permittivity obtained from direct measurement has, up to now, no substitute.
[1] The paper presents a statement and a proof of uniqueness of solution to the inverse problem of determination of permittivity of a lossy dielectric inclusion in a parallel-plane waveguide from the reflection and transmission characteristics. The approach is based on the analysis of asymptotic representations of a solution to the direct problem of diffraction of a transverse electric wave and employs a generalization of the notion of partial far-field patterns applied for a guide.Citation: Shestopalov, Y. V., and V. V. Yakovlev (2007), Uniqueness of complex permittivity reconstruction in a parallelplane waveguide, Radio Sci., 42, RS6S20,
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