A corrector theory for diffusion-homogenization limits of linear transport equations

Details A corrector theory for diffusion-homogenization limits of linear transport equations A corrector theory for diffusion-homogenization limits of linear transport equations

2012-01-21

arxiv.org/abs/1201.4424v1

Mathematics

Analysis of PDEs

25 pages

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This paper concerns the diffusion-homogenization of transport equations when both the adimensionalized scale of the heterogeneities $\alpha$ and the adimensionalized mean-free path $\eps$ converge to 0. When $\alpha=\eps$, it is well known that the heterogeneous transport solution converges to a homogenized diffusion solution. We are interested here in the situation where $0<\eps\ll\alpha\ll1$ and in the respective rates of convergences to the homogenized limit and to the diffusive limit. Our main result is an approximation to the transport solution with an error term that is negligible compared to the maximum of $\alpha$ and $\frac\eps\alpha$. After establishing the diffusion-homogenization limit to the transport solution, we show that the corrector is dominated by an error to homogenization when $\alpha^2\ll\eps$ and by an an error to diffusion when $\eps\ll\alpha^2$. Our regime of interest involves singular perturbations in the small parameter $\eta=\frac\eps\alpha$. Disconnected local equilibria at $\eta=0$ need to be reconnected to provide a global equilibrium on the cell of periodicity when $\eta>0$. This reconnection between local and global equilibria is shown to hold when sufficient {\em no-drift} conditions are satisfied. The Hilbert expansion methodology followed in this paper builds on corrector theories for the result developed in \cite{NBAPuVo}.

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