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We derive in this note a high-order corrector estimate for the homogenization of a microscopic semi-linear elliptic system posed in perforated domains. The major challenges are the presence of nonlinear volume and surface reaction rates.…
We review a coarse-graining theory for divergence-form elliptic operators. The construction centers on a pair of coarse-grained matrices defined on spatial blocks that encode a scale-dependent notion of ellipticity, transmit precise…
This paper concentrates on the quantitative homogenization of higher-order elliptic systems with almost-periodic coefficients in bounded Lipschitz domains. For coefficients which are almost-periodic in the sense of H. Weyl, we establish…
Let $\mathcal{O} \subset \mathbb{R}^d$ be a bounded domain of class $C^{1,1}$. In the Hilbert space $L_2(\mathcal{O};\mathbb{C}^n)$, we consider matrix elliptic second order differential operators $\mathcal{A}_{D,\varepsilon}$ and…
In $L_2(\mathbb{R}^d;\mathbb{C}^n)$ we consider selfadjoint strongly elliptic second order differential operators ${\mathcal A}_\varepsilon$ with periodic coefficients depending on ${\mathbf x}/ \varepsilon$, $\varepsilon>0$. We study the…
In this paper, we are interested in the reiterated homogenization of linear elliptic equations of the form $-\frac{\partial}{\partial x_{i}} \left(a_{i j} \left(\frac{x}{\varepsilon}, \frac{x}{\varepsilon^{2}}\right) \frac{\partial…
We consider second order uniformly elliptic operators of divergence form in $\R^{d+1}$ whose coefficients are independent of one variable. For such a class of operators we establish a factorization into a product of first order operators…
We consider homogenization problems for linear elliptic equations in divergence form. The coecients are assumed to be a local perturbation of some periodic background. We prove $W^{1,p}$ and Lipschitz convergence of the two-scale expansion,…
We are interested in the shape of the homogenized operator $\overline F(Q)$ for PDEs which have the structure of a nonlinear Pucci operator. A typical operator is $H^{a_1,a_2}(Q,x) = a_1(x) \lambda_{\min}(Q) + a_2(x)\lambda_{\max}(Q)$.…
In $L_2(\mathbb{R}^d;\mathbb{C}^n)$, we consider a matrix elliptic second order differential operator $B_\varepsilon >0$. Coefficients of the operator $B_\varepsilon$ are periodic with respect to some lattice in $\mathbb{R}^d$ and depend on…
We consider a strongly elliptic differential expression of the form $b(D)^* g(x/\varepsilon) b(D)$, $\varepsilon >0$, where $g(x)$ is a matrix-valued function in ${\mathbb R}^d$ assumed to be bounded, positive definite and periodic with…
In this paper, we find some error estimates for periodic homogenization of p-Laplace type equations under the same structure assumption on homogenized equations. The main idea is that by adjusting the size of the difference quotient of the…
Homogenization is studied for a nonlinear elliptic boundary-value problem with a large nonlinear potential. More specifically we are interested in the asymptotic behavior of a sequence of p-Laplacians of the form $$…
We introduce a new variational method for the numerical homogenization of divergence form elliptic, parabolic and hyperbolic equations with arbitrary rough ($L^\infty$) coefficients. Our method does not rely on concepts of ergodicity or…
We study resolvent approximations for elliptic differential nonselfadjoint operators with periodic coefficients in the limit of the small period. The class of operators covered by our analysis includes uniformly elliptic families with…
In $L_2(\mathbb{R}^d;{\mathbb C}^n)$ we consider selfadjoint strongly elliptic second order differential operators ${\mathcal A}_\varepsilon$ with periodic coefficients depending on ${\mathbf x}/\varepsilon$. We study the behavior of the…
We consider the homogenization at second-order in $\varepsilon$ of $\mathbb{L}$-periodic Schr\"odinger operators with rapidly oscillating potentials of the form $H^\varepsilon =-\Delta + \varepsilon^{-1} v(x,\varepsilon^{-1}x ) + W(x)$ on…
Elliptic homogenization is used to determine coarse-grained properties of materials with features on small scales for heat transfer and elasticity. When microstructural features of a material have rapid, periodic fluctuations, the solution…
We consider an eigenvalue problem for a divergence form elliptic operator $A_\epsilon$ with high contrast periodic coefficients with period $\epsilon$ in each coordinate, where $\epsilon$ is a small parameter. The coefficients are perturbed…
We adapt and study a variance reduction approach for the homogenization of elliptic equations in divergence form. The approach, borrowed from atomistic simulations and solid-state science [von Pezold et al, Physical Review B 2010; Wei et…