Effective interface conditions for processes through thin heterogeneous layers with nonlinear transmission at the microscopic bulk-layer interface (Q2416907)

The authors consider a system of reaction--diffusion equations in a domain $\Omega$ consisting of two bulk regions $\Omega_\epsilon^+$ and $\Omega_\epsilon^-$, separated by a thin layer $\Omega_\epsilon^M$ of thickness $\epsilon$ and having a periodic heterogeneous structure with heterogeneities of order $\epsilon$. The parameter $\epsilon>0$ is very small with respect to the length scale of $\Omega$. In the layer, the diffusion coefficients of the equations depend on $\epsilon^\gamma$, with $\gamma \in [-1,1]$. Nonlinear transmission conditions are posed on the interface between the bulk regions $\Omega_\epsilon^+$ and $\Omega_\epsilon^-$ and the layer $\Omega_\epsilon^M$. The aim of the paper is to derive effective models as the parameter $\epsilon$ tends to $0$, in correspondence of which the layer reduces to an interface $\Sigma$ between the bulk regions. The authors derive the effective interface conditions by exploiting two-scale convergence for thin heterogeneous layers and Kolmogorov-type compactness result for Banach valued functions. In particular they show the dependence on the parameter $\gamma$ and they identify the three cases $\gamma=1$, $\gamma \in (-1,1)$, and $\gamma=1$. For $\gamma=1$ the homogenized problem in the layer is formulated in the periodicity cell, for $\gamma\in (-1,1)$ they obtain a nonlinear system of ODEs, and for $\gamma=-1$ a system of nonlinear reaction-diffusion equations on the interface $\Sigma$ appears.