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The fractional p-Laplacian emerging from homogenization of the random conductance model with degenerate ergodic weights and unbounded-range jumps
We study a general class of discrete -Laplace operators in the random
conductance model with long-range jumps and ergodic weights. Using a
variational formulation of the problem, we show that under the assumption of
bounded first moments and a suitable lower moment condition on the weights, the
homogenized limit operator is a fractional -Laplace operator.
Under strengthened lower moment conditions, we can apply our insights also to
the spectral homogenization of the discrete Laplace operator to the continuous
fractional Laplace operator
Fractal homogenization of multiscale interface problems
Inspired by continuum mechanical contact problems with geological fault
networks, we consider elliptic second order differential equations with jump
conditions on a sequence of multiscale networks of interfaces with a finite
number of non-separating scales. Our aim is to derive and analyze a description
of the asymptotic limit of infinitely many scales in order to quantify the
effect of resolving the network only up to some finite number of interfaces and
to consider all further effects as homogeneous. As classical homogenization
techniques are not suited for this kind of geometrical setting, we suggest a
new concept, called fractal homogenization, to derive and analyze an asymptotic
limit problem from a corresponding sequence of finite-scale interface problems.
We provide an intuitive characterization of the corresponding fractal solution
space in terms of generalized jumps and gradients together with continuous
embeddings into L2 and Hs, s<1/2. We show existence and uniqueness of the
solution of the asymptotic limit problem and exponential convergence of the
approximating finite-scale solutions. Computational experiments involving a
related numerical homogenization technique illustrate our theoretical findings
Stochastic homogenization of -convex gradient flows
In this paper we present a stochastic homogenization result for a class of
Hilbert space evolutionary gradient systems driven by a quadratic dissipation
potential and a -convex energy functional featuring random and rapidly
oscillating coefficients. Specific examples included in the result are
Allen-Cahn type equations and evolutionary equations driven by the -Laplace
operator with . The homogenization procedure we apply is based
on a stochastic two-scale convergence approach. In particular, we define a
stochastic unfolding operator which can be considered as a random counterpart
of the well-established notion of periodic unfolding. The stochastic unfolding
procedure grants a very convenient method for homogenization problems defined
in terms of (-)convex functionals.Comment: arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1805.0954
Existence of Solution for a Model of Film Condensation and Crystallization
A model for vapor transport with condensation and evaporation on a solid-air interface is set up. It consists of a convection-diffusion equation describing vapor transport, an ordinary equation describing condensation and a Stefan-type equation on with convection describing energy transport. The proof of existence of a solution is based on a method used by J.F. Rodriguez in several publications on the convective Stefan problem. The new part in this system is a lower-dimensional Stefan problem on the air-solid interface that describes possible freezing of the condensed water. TheModel described in this article could also be applied to crystalization problems
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Stochastic homogenization on perforated domains II -- Application to nonlinear elasticity models
Based on a recent work that exposed the lack of uniformly bounded W1,p → W1,p extension operators on randomly perforated domains, we study stochastic homogenization of nonlinear elasticity on such structures using instead the extension operators constructed in [11]. We thereby introduce two-scale convergence methods on such random domains under the intrinsic loss of regularity and prove some generally useful calculus theorems on the probability space Ω, e.g. abstract Gauss theorems
Existence of solutions for two types of generalized versions of the Cahn-Hilliard equation
summary:We show existence of solutions to two types of generalized anisotropic Cahn-Hilliard problems: In the first case, we assume the mobility to be dependent on the concentration and its gradient, where the system is supplied with dynamic boundary conditions. In the second case, we deal with classical no-flux boundary conditions where the mobility depends on concentration , gradient of concentration and the chemical potential . The existence is shown using a newly developed generalization of gradient flows by the author and the theory of Young measures
On quenched homogenization of long-range random conductance models on stationary ergodic point processes
We study the homogenization limit on bounded domains for the long-range random conductance model on stationary ergodic point processes on the integer grid. We assume that the conductance between neares neighbors in the point process are always positive and satisfy certain weight conditions. For our proof we use long-range two-scale convergence as well as methods from numerical analysis of finite volume methods
Stochastic homogenization on randomly perforated domains
We study the existence of uniformly bounded extension and trace operators for W1,p-functions on randomly perforated domains, where the geometry is assumed to be stationary ergodic. Such extension and trace operators are important for compactness in stochastic homogenization. In contrast to former approaches and results, we use very weak assumptions on the geometry which we call local (δ, M)-regularity, isotropic cone mixing and bounded average connectivity. The first concept measures local Lipschitz regularity of the domain while the second measures the mesoscopic distribution of void space. The third is the most tricky part and measures the ''mesoscopic'' connectivity of the geometry. In contrast to former approaches we do not require a minimal distance between the inclusions and we allow for globally unbounded Lipschitz constants and percolating holes. We will illustrate our method by applying it to the Boolean model based on a Poisson point process and to a Delaunay pipe process. We finally introduce suitable Sobolev spaces on Rd and Ω in order to construct a stochastic two-scale convergence method and apply the resulting theory to the homogenization of a p-Laplace problem on a randomly perforated domain
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