Homogenization of random Navier-Stokes-type system for electrorheological fluid (Q2634260)

The authors describe a homogenization result for a Navier-Stokes problem with a random coefficient. This intends to model the behavior of an electrorheological fluid submitted to an electromagnetic magnetic field which has a random statistically homogeneous microstructure. The authors start with the nonsteady problem \(\frac{\partial u^{\varepsilon }}{\partial t }-\operatorname{div}(A(\frac{x}{\varepsilon },Du^{\varepsilon }))+\operatorname{div} (u^{\varepsilon }\otimes u^{\varepsilon })+\nabla \pi =0\), \(\operatorname{div} (u^{\varepsilon })=0\) in \(G\times (0,T)\), where \(G\) is a bounded and Lipschitz domain in \(\mathbb{R}^{d}\). The homogeneous Dirichlet boundary condition \(u^{\varepsilon }=0\) is imposed on the boundary and the solution starts from an initial data at \(t=0\). The coefficient \(A\) is a function \(\Omega \times M\rightarrow M\), where \((\Omega ,F,P)\) is a probability space with a group of measures \(\tau _{y}\), \(y\in \mathbb{R}^{d}\), which satisfies classical hypotheses. The authors first quote a result of \textit{V. V. Zhikov} in [Complex Var. Elliptic Equ. 56, No. 7--9, 545--558 (2011; Zbl 1228.35032)] the existence of a weak solution \(u^{\varepsilon }\) to this problem, under hypotheses on the growth condition imposed to \(A\). The main purpose of the paper is to describe the asymptotic behavior of this solution when \( \varepsilon \) goes to zero. The authors first derive the limit problem which involves an efficient coefficient \(A^{eff}\) on which they prove properties. They then apply the two-scale convergence in order to prove that \( u^{\varepsilon }\) converges to a solution of the limit problem.