Homogenization of the acoustic equations for a porous long-memory viscoelastic material filled with a viscous fluid (Q1930804)

The authors describe a homogenization result concerning the behaviour of a vibrating system composed of a porous long-memory viscoelastic material whose pores are filled in first with a viscous fluid. They consider the domain \( \Omega \) of \(\mathbb R^d\), \(d=2,3\), with Lipschitz boundary \(\partial \Omega \) and the unit cell \(Y=(0,1)^d\). \(Y\) is decomposed as \(Y=Y^h\cup Y^s\cup \Gamma \), where \(Y^h\) and \(Y^s\) are two open and connected subsets of \(Y\), and \(\Gamma \) is the smooth interface between them. \(Y^h\) (resp. \(Y^s\)) corresponds to the viscoelastic (resp. fluid) part of the cell. The authors build the periodically mixed domain \(\Omega _{\varepsilon }^{h}\cup \Omega _{\varepsilon }^{s}\cup S_{\varepsilon }\) where \(\Omega _{\varepsilon }^{h}=\Omega \setminus \cup _{k\in \mathbb{Z}^{d}}(\varepsilon \overline{Y}^{h}+\varepsilon k)\), \(\Omega _{\varepsilon }^{s}=\Omega \setminus \overline{\Omega }_{\varepsilon }^{h}\) and \(S_{\varepsilon }=\partial \Omega _{\varepsilon }^{h}\cap \Omega _{\varepsilon }^{s}\). The problem is written as \[ \rho ^{\varepsilon }\frac{\partial ^{2}u_{i}^{\varepsilon }}{\partial t^{2}}-\frac{\partial \sigma _{ij}^{\varepsilon }}{\partial x_{j}}=f_{i}\,\,\text{in}\,\, \Omega \times (0,T),\,\, \text{div}\,u^{\varepsilon }=0\,\,\text{in}\,\,\Omega _{\varepsilon }^{s}\times (0,T). \] Here \(\rho ^{\varepsilon }\) is deduced from a \(Y\)-periodic function \(\rho \) equal to some function \(\rho ^{h}(y)\) in \(Y^{h}\) and to some constant \(\rho ^{s}\) in \(Y^{s}\), through \(\rho ^{\varepsilon }(x)=\rho (x/\varepsilon )\), \( \sigma ^{\varepsilon }\) is the stress tensor equal to \(a_{ijkh}^{\varepsilon }\epsilon _{kh}(u^{\varepsilon })+d_{ijkh}^{\varepsilon }\ast \epsilon _{kh}(u^{\varepsilon })\) in \(\Omega _{\varepsilon }^{h}\) and to \(-\delta _{ij}p^{\varepsilon }+2\mu \delta _{ik}\delta _{jh}e_{kh}(\partial _{t}u^{\varepsilon })\) in \(\Omega _{\varepsilon }^{h}\), with usual definitions and properties of these tensors. Homogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions \(u^{\varepsilon }=0\) are imposed on \(\partial \Omega \times (0,T)\), and homogeneous initial data \(u^{\varepsilon }(x,0)=0=\partial _{t}u^{\varepsilon }(x,0)\) are imposed on \(\Omega \). The authors first prove uniform estimates on \(u^{\varepsilon }\) and on a classical extension to \(\Omega \times (0,T)\) of the pressure \(p^{\varepsilon }\) (a priori defined on \(\Omega _{\varepsilon }^{s}\times (0,T)\)). The main result of the paper establishes the asymptotic behaviour of the solution \((u^{\varepsilon },p^{\varepsilon })\) using the two-scale convergence originally defined by \textit{G. Nguetseng} [SIAM J. Math. Anal. 20, No. 3, 608--623 (1989; Zbl 0688.35007)]. But the authors here first apply the Laplace transform and compute the two-scale limit of the Laplace transform using a variational formulation. They go back to the original problem taking the inverse Laplace transform. The paper ends with an extension obtained when replacing the incompressible condition \(\text{div}u^{\varepsilon }=0\) in \(\Omega _{\varepsilon }^{s}\times (0,T)\) in the fluid part by the condition \( p^{\varepsilon }=-\gamma \text{div}u^{\varepsilon }=0\) in \(\Omega _{\varepsilon }^{s}\times (0,T)\).