Singularities interacting with a coated circular inhomogeneity are analyzed with the method of analytic continuation and the Schwarz–Neumann’s alternating technique. It is shown that the solution for singularities in a homogeneous medium can be used as a building block of the solution for the same singularities interacting with a coated circular inclusion. The obtained solutions have series forms independent of any specific information about singularities, and thus they can be interpreted as general solutions for a variety of singularities.

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