The Bloch approximation in periodically perforated media (Q814938)

A classical homogenization problem is considered: the authors consider a medium filling an open set \(\Omega\) which contains periodically distributed perforations, denoted by \(T_k^{\varepsilon}\), \(k=1, \dots N(\varepsilon)\). The periodicity and the size of the holes are of the order \(O(\varepsilon)\). They consider the following family of elliptic problems (\((\cdot,\cdot)\) denotes the scalar product in \({\mathbb R}^n\)) \[ \begin{aligned} - \text{ div } \;\big( a^{\varepsilon} \cdot \nabla u) = f \quad&\text{ in } \Omega \setminus \bigcup_k T_k^{\varepsilon},\\ (a^{\varepsilon} \cdot \nabla u , \nu ) = 0 \quad&\text{ in } \partial \bigcup_k T_k^{\varepsilon},\\ u = 0 \quad&\text{ in } \partial \Omega, \end{aligned} \] where \(a^{\varepsilon}\) are symmetric elliptic matrices and denote by \(u^{\varepsilon}\) the solutions. Using the Bloch wave decomposition technique (already used by some of the authors to study the limit behaviour as \(\varepsilon\) goes to zero of the problems above) an approximation in the energy norm, the norm of \(H^1\), of the solutions \(u^{\varepsilon}\) by a \textit{Bloch approximation} \(\theta^{\varepsilon}\) is given, that is by \(\theta^{\varepsilon}\) it is possible to provide a corrector of the homogenized solution.