Error estimates for a Neumann problem in highly oscillating thin domains

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Abstract: In this work we analyze convergence of solutions for the Laplace operator with Neumann boundary conditions in a two-dimensional highly oscillating domain which degenerates into a segment (thin domains) of the real line. We consider the case where the height of the thin domain, amplitude and period of the oscillations are all of the same order, given by a small parameter epsilon. We investigate strong convergence properties of the solutions using an appropriate corrector approach. We also give error estimates when we replace the original solutions for the second-order expansion through the Multiple-Scale Method.


The authors prove error estimates for some elliptic problem posed in a thin domain with a highly oscillating boundary. They consider the 2D domain \[ R^{\varepsilon }=\{(x_{1},x_{2})\in \mathbb R^2\mid 0<x_{1}<1, 0<x_{2}<\varepsilon g(x_{1}/\varepsilon )\}, \] where \(g\in C^{1}(\mathbb R, \mathbb R)\) is a \(L\)-periodic and positive function. They consider the problem \(-\Delta w^{\varepsilon }+w^{\varepsilon }=f^{\varepsilon }\) posed in \(R^{\varepsilon }\) with the homogeneous Neumann boundary conditions \( \frac{\partial w^{\varepsilon }}{\partial N^{\varepsilon }}\) on the boundary of \(R^{\varepsilon }\). Here \(f^{\varepsilon }\in L^{2}(R^{\varepsilon })\) is uniformly bounded. The authors write the solution \(w^{\varepsilon }\) as \[ w^{\varepsilon }(x_{1},x_{2})=w_{0}(x_{1},\frac{x_{1}}{\varepsilon },\frac{ x_{2}}{\varepsilon })+\varepsilon w_{1}(x_{1},\frac{x_{1}}{\varepsilon }, \frac{x_{2}}{\varepsilon })+\varepsilon ^{2}w_{2}(x_{1},\frac{x_{1}}{ \varepsilon },\frac{x_{2}}{\varepsilon })+\cdots, \] and characterize the three terms of this second-order multiple-scale expansion as solutions of elliptic problems in the cell \(Y^{\ast }=\{(y,z)\in \mathbb R^2\mid 0<y<L\) , \(0<z<g(y_{1})\}\) with Neumann boundary conditions on the upper and lower boundaries of \(Y^\ast\). They then build the first-order and second-order correctors for this problem which involve \(w_0\) and the functions \(w_1\) and \(w_2\) which can be expressed in terms of the derivatives of \(w_0\). The two main results of the paper establish the estimates concerning these two correctors. The proofs are built using the properties of the function \( w_0\) and direct computations.











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