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The Maxwell equations in a heterogeneous medium are studied. Nguetseng’s method of two-scale convergence is applied to homogenize and prove corrector results for the Maxwell equations with inhomogeneous initial conditions. Compactness results, of two-scale type, needed for the homogenization of the Maxwell equations are proved.

The Maxwell equations with uniformly monotone nonlinear electric conductivity in a heterogeneous medium, which may be non-periodic, are homogenized by two-scale convergence. We introduce a new set of function spaces appropriate for the nonlinear Maxwell system. New compactness results, of two-scale type, are proved for these function spaces. We prove existence of a unique solution for the heterogeneous system as well as for the homogenized system. We also prove that the solutions of the heterogeneous...

Reiterated homogenization is studied for divergence structure parabolic problems of the form $\partial u_{\epsilon }/\partial t-div\left(a\left(x,x/\epsilon ,x/{\epsilon }^2,t,t/{\epsilon }^k\right)\nabla u_{\epsilon }\right)=f$. It is shown that under standard assumptions on the function $a(x,y_1,y_2,t,\tau )$ the sequence $\left\{u_{ϵ}\right\}$ of solutions converges weakly in $L^2(0,T;H_0^1\left(\Omega \right))$ to the solution $u$ of the homogenized problem $\partial u/\partial t-div\left(b\right(x,t\left)\nabla u\right)=f$.

A general concept of two-scale convergence is introduced and two-scale compactness theorems are stated and proved for some classes of sequences of bounded functions in $L^2\left(\Omega \right)$ involving no periodicity assumptions. Further, the relation to the classical notion of compensated compactness and the recent concepts of two-scale compensated compactness and unfolding is discussed and a defect measure for two-scale convergence is introduced.