Homogenization of a parabolic model of ferromagnetism (Q618281)

The author studies the periodic homogenization of hysteresis-free processes in ferromagnetic composites. The object of study is a degenerate, quasilinear, parabolic equation derived by coupling the Maxwell-Ohm system without displacement current with a nonlinear constitutive law. Main techniques include a variational representation of maximal monotonicity, a two-scale transformation, scale-transformations as well as \(\Gamma\)-convergence-based arguments. Upscaled equations and effective coefficients are derived. It would be interesting to see to which extent corrector estimates can be obtained for this class of nonlinear problems.