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A nonlinear elliptic problem with terms concentrating in the boundary

Analysis of PDEs 2015-06-04 v1

Abstract

In this paper we investigate the behavior of a family of steady state solutions of a nonlinear reaction diffusion equation when some reaction and potential terms are concentrated in a ϵ\epsilon-neighborhood of a portion Γ\Gamma of the boundary. We assume that this ϵ\epsilon-neighborhood shrinks to Γ\Gamma as the small parameter ϵ\epsilon goes to zero. Also, we suppose the upper boundary of this ϵ\epsilon-strip presents a highly oscillatory behavior. Our main goal here is to show that this family of solutions converges to the solutions of a limit problem, a nonlinear elliptic equation that captures the oscillatory behavior. Indeed, the reaction term and concentrating potential are transformed into a flux condition and a potential on Γ\Gamma, which depends on the oscillating neighborhood.

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@article{arxiv.1204.0116,
  title  = {A nonlinear elliptic problem with terms concentrating in the boundary},
  author = {Gleiciane S. Aragão and Antônio L. Pereira and Marcone C. Pereira},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1204.0116},
  year   = {2015}
}
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