The thick Neumann's sieve (Q1097400)

The author considers the thick Neumann's sieve which is described by the boundary value problem \[ -\Delta u^{\epsilon}+u^{\epsilon}=f\quad in\quad \Omega^{\epsilon};\quad \frac{\partial u^{\epsilon}}{\partial n}=0\quad on\quad \Gamma^{\epsilon};\quad u^{\epsilon}=0\quad on\quad \partial \Omega -\Sigma^{\epsilon} \] where \(\Omega^{\epsilon}=\Omega -\Sigma^{\epsilon}\), \(\Gamma^{\epsilon}={\bar \Omega}\cap \partial \Sigma^{\epsilon}\), \(\Omega\) is an open bounded set of R N, \(\Sigma^{\epsilon}\) is the sieve with thickness \(2h^{\epsilon}\) and the holes of ``diameter'' \(2r^{\epsilon}\), centred on the hyperplane \(x_ N=0\), \(\epsilon\) is the parameter characterizing the distance between two adjacent holes. He also identifies the limit problem which depends on \(h^{\epsilon}\) and \(r^{\epsilon}\).