Convergence of the pressure in the homogenization of the Stokes equations in randomly perforated domains

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Abstract: We consider the homogenization to the Brinkman equations for the incompressible Stokes equations in a bounded domain which is perforated by a random collection of small spherical holes. This problem has been studied by the same authors in [A. Giunti and R.M. H"ofer, Homogenization for the Stokes equations in randomly perforated domains under almost minimal assumptions on the size of the holes] where convergence of the fluid velocity field towards the solution of the Brinkman equations has been established. In the present we consider the pressure associated to the solution of the Stokes equations in the perforated domain. We prove that it is possible to extend this pressure inside the holes and slightly modify it in a region of asymptotically negligible harmonic capacity such that it weakly converges to the pressure associated with the solution of the Brinkman equations.


The authors prove a homogenization result, especially focusing on the pressure, for the steady incompressible Stokes equations \(-\Delta u_{\varepsilon }+\nabla p_{\varepsilon }=f\), \(\nabla \cdot u_{\varepsilon }=0 \), posed in a domain \(D^{\varepsilon }\), which is obtained by removing from a bounded set \(D\subset \mathbb{R}^{d}\), \(d>2\) a random number of small balls having random centers and radii: \(D^{\varepsilon }=D\setminus H^{\varepsilon }\), with \(H^{\varepsilon }=\cup _{z_{i}\in \Phi \cap \frac{1}{ \varepsilon }D}B_{\varepsilon \frac{d}{d-2}\rho _{i}}(\varepsilon z_{i})\), where \(\Phi \) is a Poisson point process on \(\mathbb{R}^{d}\) with homogeneous intensity rate \(\lambda >0\), and the radii \(\{\rho _{i}\}_{z_{i}\in \Phi }\sqsubseteq \mathbb{R}_{+}\) are identically and independently distributed unbounded random variables which satisfy \( \left\langle \rho ^{(d-2)+\beta }\right\rangle <+\infty \) for some \(\beta >0 \), \(\left\langle \cdot \right\rangle \) being the expectation under the probability measure on the radii \(\rho _{i}\). The homogeneous Dirichlet boundary condition \(u_{\varepsilon }=0\) is imposed in \(\partial D^{\varepsilon }\). The source term \(f\) is supposed to belong to \(H^{-1}(D; \mathbb{R}^{d})\) and the above problem has a solution \((u_{\varepsilon },p_{\varepsilon })\) which belongs to \(H_{0}^{1}(D^{\varepsilon };\mathbb{R} ^{d})\times L_{0}^{2}(D^{\varepsilon };\mathbb{R})\). The authors introduce the homogenized problem (Brinkman's equation): \(-\Delta u_{h}+\mu u_{h}+\nabla p_{h}=f\), \(\nabla \cdot u_{h}=0\), posed in \(D\), where \(\mu =C_{d}\lambda \left\langle \rho ^{d-2}\right\rangle I\), \(C_{d}>0\) being a constant which only depends on the dimension \(d\). The main result of the paper proves that for \(P\)-almost every \(\omega \in \Omega \) there exists a family of sets \(E^{\varepsilon }\sqsubseteq \mathbb{R}^{d}\) and a sequence \( r_{\varepsilon }\rightarrow 0\) such that \(H^{\varepsilon }\sqsubseteq E^{\varepsilon }\) and for \(\varepsilon \downarrow 0^{+}\) \(Cap(E^{\varepsilon }\setminus H^{\varepsilon })\rightarrow 0\), where \(Cap\) denotes the harmonic capacity in \(\mathbb{R}^{d}\). Further, the modification \(\widetilde{p} _{\varepsilon }\) of the pressure defined as \(\widetilde{p}_{\varepsilon }=p_{\varepsilon }-\frac{1}{\left\vert D_{r_{\varepsilon }}\setminus E^{\varepsilon }\right\vert }\int_{D_{r_{\varepsilon }}\setminus E^{\varepsilon }}p_{\varepsilon }\) in \(D_{r_{\varepsilon }}\setminus E^{\varepsilon }\) and \(\widetilde{p}_{\varepsilon }=p_{\varepsilon }\) in \( (D\setminus D_{r_{\varepsilon }})\cup E^{\varepsilon }\), satisfies for all \( q<\frac{d}{d-1}\) \(\widetilde{p}_{\varepsilon }\rightarrow p_{h}\) in \( L_{0}^{q}(D;\mathbb{R})\). Here \(D_{r}=\{x\in D:dist(x,\partial D)>r\}\). The key tool for the proof is an estimate on the Bogovski operator in \( D\setminus E^{\varepsilon }\). The authors also build appropriate test functions.











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