Parabolic homogenization with an interface

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Abstract: This paper considers a family of second-order parabolic equations in divergence form with rapidly oscillating and time-dependent periodic coefficients and an interface between two periodic structures. Following a framework initiated by Blanc, Le Bris and Lions and a generalized two-scale expansion in divergence form of elliptic homogenization with an interface by Josien, we can determine the effective (or homogenized) equation with the coefficient matrix being piecewise constant and discontinuous across the interface. Moreover, we obtain the O(varepsilon) convergence rates in Lx,t2(d+2)/d with varepsilon-smoothing method and the uniform interior Lipschitz estimates via compactness argument.


Homogenization theory for parabolic equations \( \partial_t u_\varepsilon-\operatorname{div}(A(x/\varepsilon,t/\varepsilon^2)\nabla u_\varepsilon)=f(x,t) \) in periodic media \(\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^d\) proves that \(u_\varepsilon\) converges, as \(\varepsilon\to 0\), weakly in \(L^2(\Omega\times(0,T))\) to the solution \(u_0\) of the associated homogenized equation. The coefficient matrix \(A\) is assumed to be bounded, \(1\)-periodic, uniformly positive definite, and is allowed to depend on time. For initial-Dirichlet and initial-Neumann boundary problems, [\textit{J. Geng} and \textit{Z. Shen}, J. Funct. Anal. 272, No. 5, 2092--2113 (2017; Zbl 1356.35031)] proved quantitative convergence rates \(\|u_\varepsilon-u_0\|_{L^2}=O(\varepsilon)\) under the assumptions \(u_0\in L^2(0,T;H^2(\Omega))\) and \(f\in L^2(\Omega\times(0,T))\). The paper under review deals with the Cauchy problem with zero initial data. The material \(\Omega=\mathbb{R}^d\) is a union of two periodic media glued along an interface which agrees with a coordinate plane. So the homogenized coefficient matrix associated with \(A\) is discontinuous across the interface. Theorem 1.2 gives an \(O(\varepsilon)\) convergence rate under the assumption \(f\in L^\infty(0,T;L^2(\mathbb{R}^d))\). Furthermore, Theorem 1.4 contains uniform interior Lipschitz estimates.











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