HOMOGENIZATION IN PERFORATED DOMAINS AND WITH SOFT INCLUSIONS

Author

Brandon C. Russell, University of KentuckyFollow

Date Available

4-18-2018

Year of Publication

2018

Degree Name

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

Document Type

Doctoral Dissertation

College

Arts and Sciences

Department/School/Program

Mathematics

First Advisor

Dr. Zhongwei Shen

Abstract

In this dissertation, we first provide a short introduction to qualitative homogenization of elliptic equations and systems. We collect relevant and known results regarding elliptic equations and systems with rapidly oscillating, periodic coefficients, which is the classical setting in homogenization of elliptic equations and systems. We extend several classical results to the so called case of perforated domains and consider materials reinforced with soft inclusions. We establish quantitative H¹-convergence rates in both settings, and as a result deduce large-scale Lipschitz estimates and Liouville-type estimates for solutions to elliptic systems with rapidly oscillating periodic bounded and measurable coefficients. Finally, we connect these large-scale estimates with local regulartity results at the microscopic-level to achieve interior Lipschitz regularity at every scale.

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

https://doi.org/10.13023/ETD.2018.174

Recommended Citation

Russell, Brandon C., "HOMOGENIZATION IN PERFORATED DOMAINS AND WITH SOFT INCLUSIONS" (2018). Theses and Dissertations--Mathematics. 55.
https://uknowledge.uky.edu/math_etds/55