Asymptotic decay under nonlinear and noncoercive dissipative effects for electrical conduction in biological tissues

We consider a nonlinear model for electrical conduction in biological tissues. The nonlinearity appears in the interface condition prescribed on the cell membrane. The purpose of this paper is proving asymptotic convergence for large times to a periodic solution when time-periodic boundary data are assigned. The novelty here is that we allow the nonlinearity to be noncoercive. We consider both the homogenized and the non-homogenized version of the problem

Laplace-Beltrami operator for the heat conduction in polymer coating of electronic devices

In this paper we study a model for the heat conduction in a composite having a microscopic structure arranged in a perodic array. We obtain the macroscopic behaviour of the material via an homogenization procedure, providing the equation satisfied by the effective temperature

Existence, uniqueness and concentration for a system of PDEs involving the Laplace-Beltrami operator

In this paper we derive a model for heat diffusion in a composite medium in which the different components are separated by thermally active interfaces. The previous result is obtained via a concentrated capacity procedure and leads to a non-stantard system of PDEs involving a Laplace-Beltrami operator acting on the interface. For such a system well-posedness is proved using contraction mapping and abstract parabolic problems theory. Finally, the exponential convergence (in time) of the solutions of our system to a steady state is proved

Homogenization of an alternating Robin–Neumann boundary condition via time-periodic unfolding

We consider the homogenization of a parabolic problem in a perforated domain with Robin–Neumann boundary conditions oscillating in time. Such oscillations must compensate the blow up of the boundary measure of the holes. We use the technique of time-periodic unfolding in order to obtain a macroscopic parabolic problem containing an extra linear term due to the absorption determined by the Robin condition

On the Finsler metrics obtained as limits of chessboard structures

We study the geodesics in a planar chessboard structure with two values 1 and $\beta>1$. The results for a fixed structure allow us to infer the properties of the Finsler metrics obtained, with an homogenization procedure, as limit of oscillating chessboard structures.Comment: 31 pages, 15 figure

Well-posedness of two pseudo-parabolic problems for electrical conduction in heterogeneous media

We prove a well-posedness result for two pseudo-parabolic problems, which can be seen as two models for the same electrical conduction phenomenon in heterogeneous media, neglecting the magnetic field. One of the problems is the concentration limit of the other one, when the thickness of the dielectric inclusions goes to zero. The concentrated problem involves a transmission condition through interfaces, which is mediated by a suitable Laplace-Beltrami type equation.Comment: 21 pages, 2 figure