Affiliations: Laboratoire Jacques-Louis Lions, 7598, BP 187, 4 Place Jussieu, 75252 Paris Cedex 05, France and Department of Mathematics, ENS, P.O. Box 92, 16050 Kouba, Algiers, Algeria. E-mails: amar.ouldhamouda@ens-kouba.dz, hammouda@ann.jussieu.fr
Abstract: We consider elliptic problems in periodically perforated domains in RN, N≥3, with nonhomogeneous Neumann conditions on the boundary of the holes. The aim is to give the asymptotic behavior of the solutions as the period ε goes to zero. Two geometries are considered. In the first one, all the holes are “small”, i.e., their size is of order of εr(ε) with r(ε)→0. The second geometry is more general, there are small holes as before but also holes of size of the order of ε (the last ones corresponding to the classical homogenization situation). Our study is performed by the periodic unfolding method from C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris Ser. I 335 (2002), 99–104, adapted to the case of holes of size εr(ε) (see J. Math. Pures Appl. 89 (2008), 248–277). The use of this method allows us to study second-order operators with highly oscillating coefficients and so, to generalize here the results of RAIRO Modél. Math. Anal. Numér. 4(22) (1988), 561–608. In both cases, if r(ε)=exp (N/N−1), an additional term appears in the right-hand side of the limit equation.
Keywords: homogenization, periodic unfolding method, perforated domains, small holes
