Transmission conditions for the Helmholtz-equation in perforated domains (Q2360085)

In the paper the acoustic properties of three-dimensional domains that contain many obstacles with the small diameter \(\varepsilon>0\), periodically distributed along a two-dimensional hyperplane \(\Gamma\), is investigated. The effective transmission conditions across \(\Gamma\) that characterize solutions in the limit \(\varepsilon\to 0\) is obtained. It turns out that, to leading order \(O(\varepsilon^0 )\) the perforation is invisible, while at order \(O(\varepsilon^1 )\) inhomogeneous jump conditions for the pressure and the flux appear. The proof of the main result does not use any of the typical homogenization tools, such as two-scale convergence, periodic unfolding, or compensated compactness. This seems to be a special feature of the transmission problem.