Bingham flow in porous media with obstacles of different size

By using the unfolding operators for periodic homogenization, we give a general compactness result for a class of functions defined on bounded domains presenting perforations of two different size. Then we apply this result to the homogenization of the flow of a Bingham fluid in a porous medium with solid obstacles of different size. Next we give the interpretation of the limit problem in term of a non linear Darcy law.Comment: 19 pages, 2 figure

Waveguide with non-periodically alternating Dirichlet and Robin conditions: homogenization and asymptotics

We consider a magnetic Schroedinger operator in a planar infinite strip with frequently and non-periodically alternating Dirichlet and Robin boundary conditions. Assuming that the homogenized boundary condition is the Dirichlet or the Robin one, we establish the uniform resolvent convergence in various operator norms and we prove the estimates for the rates of convergence. It is shown that these estimates can be improved by using special boundary correctors. In the case of periodic alternation, pure Laplacian, and the homogenized Robin boundary condition, we construct two-terms asymptotics for the first band functions, as well as the complete asymptotics expansion (up to an exponentially small term) for the bottom of the band spectrum

On a waveguide with frequently alternating boundary conditions: homogenized Neumann condition

We consider a waveguide modeled by the Laplacian in a straight planar strip. The Dirichlet boundary condition is taken on the upper boundary, while on the lower boundary we impose periodically alternating Dirichlet and Neumann condition assuming the period of alternation to be small. We study the case when the homogenization gives the Neumann condition instead of the alternating ones. We establish the uniform resolvent convergence and the estimates for the rate of convergence. It is shown that the rate of the convergence can be improved by employing a special boundary corrector. Other results are the uniform resolvent convergence for the operator on the cell of periodicity obtained by the Floquet-Bloch decomposition, the two-terms asymptotics for the band functions, and the complete asymptotic expansion for the bottom of the spectrum with an exponentially small error term

Asymptotic behaviour of a Bingham fluid in thin layers

AbstractA nonlinear stationary model describing the behaviour of a Bingham fluid is considered in a thin layer in R3. The limit problem obtained after transforming the original problem into one posed over a fixed reference domain and then letting ε (the parameter representing the thickness of the layer) tend to zero is studied. Existence and uniqueness results and a lower-dimensional ‘Bingham-like’ constitutive law are obtained. An identical study of a two-dimensional problem yields a one-dimensional model prevalent in engineering literature

Scalar problems in junctions of rods and a plate. II. Self-adjoint extensions and simulation models

In this work we deal with a scalar spectral mixed boundary value problem in a spacial junction of thin rods and a plate. Constructing asymptotics of the eigenvalues, we employ two equipollent asymptotic models posed on the skeleton of the junction, that is, a hybrid domain. We, first, use the technique of self-adjoint extensions and, second, we impose algebraic conditions at the junction points in order to compile a problem in a function space with detached asymptotics. The latter problem is involved into a symmetric generalized Green formula and, therefore, admits the variational formulation. In comparison with a primordial asymptotic procedure, these two models provide much better proximity of the spectra of the problems in the spacial junction and in its skeleton. However, they exhibit the negative spectrum of finite multiplicity and for these "parasitic" eigenvalues we derive asymptotic formulas to demonstrate that they do not belong to the service area of the developed asymptotic models.Comment: 31 pages, 2 figur

T-coercivity for the homogenization of sign-changing coefficients scalar problems with extreme contrasts

International audienceWe study the homogenization of a diffusion-type problem, for sign-changing conductivities with extreme contrasts. The weak limit, which is proved to be the same as in the elliptic case of positive conductivities, has an explicit dependence on the conductivities