Many electrical and structural components are constituted of a stacking of multiple thin layers with different electromagnetic, mechanical and thermal properties. When 3D descriptions become compulsory the approximation of the fields along the thickness direction could involve thousands of nodes. To circumvent the numerical difficulties that such a rich description imply, we recently propose an in-plane-out-of-plane separated representation with the aim of computing fully 3D solutions as a sequence of 2D problems defined in the plane and others (1D) in the thickness. The main contribution of the present work is the proposal of an efficient in-plane-out-of-plane separated representation of the double-curl formulation of Maxwell equations able to address thinlayer laminates while ensuring the continuity and discontinuity of the tangential and normal electric field components respectively at the plies interface.
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