Homogenization of singular elliptic systems with nonlinear conditions on the interfaces (Q2210146)

The authors investigate the homogenization of singular elliptic systems with nonlinear conditions on the interfaces. They consider the heat conduction in a composite with two finely mixed phases having a periodic active interface and a singular source. Moreover, they assume that the heat flow across the interface is related to the temperature jump through the interface by means on of a nonlinear relation. More precisely, the fix a region \(\Omega\) in \(\mathbb{R}^N\) consisting of the two phases \(\Omega^\epsilon_1=\Omega \cap \epsilon E\) and \(\Omega^\epsilon_2=\Omega \setminus \overline{\Omega_1^\epsilon}\), separated by the interface \(\Gamma^\epsilon\), where \(E\) is a periodic open subset of \(\mathbb{R}^N\). Then they consider the problem \[ \begin{array}{ll} -\mathrm{div}(\lambda_1 \nabla u_\epsilon)=f/u^\theta_\epsilon & \mathrm{in}\ \Omega_1^\epsilon\, , \\ -\mathrm{div}(\lambda_2 \nabla u_\epsilon)=f/u^\theta_\epsilon & \mathrm{in}\ \Omega_2^\epsilon\, , \\ \lambda_1 \nabla u_\epsilon\cdot \nu=\lambda_2 \nabla u_\epsilon\cdot \nu & \mathrm{on}\ \Gamma^\epsilon\, , \\ \frac{1}{\epsilon^{1-k}}g\Bigg(\frac{[u_\epsilon]}{\epsilon^k}\Bigg)=\lambda_2 \nabla u_\epsilon\cdot \nu_\epsilon & \mathrm{on}\ \Gamma^\epsilon\, , \\ u_\epsilon>0 & \mathrm{in}\ \Omega\, , \\ u_\epsilon=0 & \mathrm{on}\ \partial \Omega\, , \end{array} \] where \(\theta \in (0,1)\), \(k \in \{0,1\}\), \(\lambda_1, \lambda_2 \in (0,+\infty)\), \([u_\epsilon]\) is the jump of \(u_\epsilon\) across the interface, \(\nu_\epsilon\) is the normal unit vector to \(\Gamma^\epsilon\) pointing into \(\Omega_\epsilon^2\). The authors prove an existence and uniqueness theorem and a homogenization result via two-scale homogenization.