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We prove regularity and stochastic homogenization results for certain degenerate elliptic equations in nondivergence form. The equation is required to be strictly elliptic, but the ellipticity may oscillate on the microscopic scale and is…
We give a simplified presentation of the obstacle problem approach to stochastic homogenization for elliptic equations in nondivergence form. Our argument also applies to equations which depend on the gradient of the unknown function. In…
We consider divergence form elliptic operators of the form $L=-\dv A(x)\nabla$, defined in $R^{n+1} = \{(x,t)\in R^n \times R \}$, $n \geq 2$, where the $L^{\infty}$ coefficient matrix $A$ is $(n+1)\times(n+1)$, uniformly elliptic, complex…
In this paper, we consider the following problem involving fractional Laplacian operator: \begin{equation}\label{eq:0.1} (-\Delta)^{\alpha} u= |u|^{2^*_\alpha-2-\varepsilon}u + \lambda u\,\, {\rm in}\,\, \Omega,\quad u=0 \,\, {\rm on}\, \,…
In this paper, we study the homogenization of a diffusion process with jumps, that is, Feller process generated by an integro-differential operator. This problem is closely related to the problem of homogenization of boundary value problems…
The steady motion of a viscous incompressible fluid in a multiply-connected, planar, bounded domain (perforated with a large number of small holes) is modeled through the Navier-Stokes equations with non-homogeneous Dirichlet boundary data…
The fluid flow across an unbounded horizontal plate embedded with uniform mass diffusion is studied in this article together with the impacts of the chemical reaction and parabolic motion, while the temperature and concentration of the…
We consider the optimal arrangement of two diffusion materials in a bounded open set $\Omega\subset \mathbb{R}^N$ in order to maximize the energy. The diffusion problem is modeled by the $p$-Laplacian operator. It is well known that this…
We consider periodic homogenization of hyperelastic models incorporating incompressible behavior via the constraint $\det(\nabla u)=1$. We show that the 'usual' homogenized integral functional $\int W_{\rm hom}(\nabla u)\,dx$, where $W_{\rm…
Let $\Omega$ be an open, simply connected, and bounded region in $\mathbb{R}^{d}$, $d\geq2$, and assume its boundary $\partial\Omega$ is smooth. Consider solving an elliptic partial differential equation $-\Delta u+\gamma u=f$ over $\Omega$…
The paper deals with the homogenization of reaction-diffusion equations with large reaction terms in a multi-scale porous medium. We assume that the fractures and pores are equidistributed and that the coefficients of the equations are…
Many time-dependent linear partial differential equations of mathematical physics and continuum mechanics can be phrased in the form of an abstract evolutionary system defined on a Hilbert space. In this paper we discuss a general framework…
Four quantities are fundamental in homogenization of elliptic systems in divergence form and in its applications: the field and the flux of the solution operator (applied to a general deterministic right-hand side), and the field and the…
We are concerned with the study of the twin non-local inequalities featuring non-homogeneous differential operators $$\displaystyle -\Delta^2 u + \lambda\Delta u \geq (K_{\alpha, \beta} * u^p)u^q \quad\text{ in } \mathbb{R}^N (N\geq 1),$$…
We show that the elliptic problem $\Delta u+f(u)=0$ in $\mathbb{R}^N$, $N\geq 1$, with $f\in C^1(\mathbb{R})$ and $f(0)=0$ does not have nontrivial stable solutions that decay to zero at infinity, provided that $f$ is nonincreasing near the…
In this paper, we study the following singular nonlinear elliptic problem \begin{equation}\label{eq:1} \left\{ \begin{array}{ll} \displaystyle (-\Delta)^{\frac \alpha 2} u=\lambda |u|^{r-2}u+\mu\frac{|u|^{q-2}u}{|x|^{s}}\quad &{\rm in…
In this paper, we study numerical methods for the homogenization of linear second-order elliptic equations in nondivergence-form with periodic diffusion coefficients and large drift terms. Upon noting that the effective diffusion matrix can…
We consider an elliptic differential inequality: $\vert \Delta u(x) \vert \le C_0(\YYYY^{-\gamma}\vert u(x)\vert + \YYYY^{-\theta}\vert \nabla u(x)\vert)$ in an exterior domain $\R^n \setminus \ooo{U}$, where $U$ is a simply connected…
We consider a non-relativistic quantum particle in $\mathbb{R}^d$, $d=2$ or $d = 3$, interacting with singular zero-range potentials concentrated on a large collection of points. We analyze the homogenization regime where the intensities of…