Boundary Layers in Periodic Homogenization

• Main Author: Zhuge, Jinping
• Format: Others
• Published: UKnowledge 2019
• Subjects: Boundary layers; Periodic homogenization; Convergence rates; Analysis
• Online Access: https://uknowledge.uky.edu/math_etds/64; https://uknowledge.uky.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1065&context=math_etds

The boundary layer problems in periodic homogenization arise naturally from the quantitative analysis of convergence rates. Formally they are second-order linear elliptic systems with periodically oscillating coefficient matrix, subject to periodically oscillating Dirichelt or Neumann boundary data. In this dissertation, for either Dirichlet problem or Neumann problem, we establish the homogenization results and obtain the nearly sharp convergence rates, provided the domain is strictly convex. Also, we show that the homogenized boundary data is in W1,p for any p ∈ (1,∞), which implies the Cα-Hölder continuity for any α ∈ (0,1).