Large time behavior for convection-diffusion equations in \(\mathbb{R}^N\) with periodic coefficients (Q1590087)

This very interesting article deals with large time behavior of a convection-diffusion equation \(u_t-\text{div}(a(x)\nabla u)=d\cdot\nabla(|u|^{q-1}u)\) in the entire space, where \(d\) is a constant vector in \(\mathbb{R}^N\), \(a(x)\) is a symmetric periodic matrix which satisfies the standard ellipticity condition and is Lipschitz continuous, and the initial value is an integrable function over \(\mathbb{R}^N\). The authors show that the asymptotic behavior of the equation is connected to the asymptotic behavior of the equation with homogenized coefficients \(a^h\), where \(u(\lambda x)\) \(H\)-converges to \(a^h\) as \(\lambda \to \infty\). The authors consider three cases: \(d=0\), \(d\neq 0\) and \(q> 1 +\frac {1}{N}\) and \(d\neq 0\), \(q=1 + \frac {1}{N}\). In the first two cases the asymptotic behavior is given by the asymptotic behavior of the fundamental solution to \( u^h_t - \text{div} (a^h \nabla u^h)=0\) while in the last case by the asymptotic behavior of the fundamental equation to \(u^h_t - \text{div} (a^h \nabla u^h) = d \cdot( \nabla (|u^h|^{\frac {1}{N}}u^h)\), where \(u^h\) has a selfsimilar structure. The case with \(d\neq 0\) and \(q<1+ \frac {1}{N}\) remains open.