Homogenization of the Poisson equation in a thick periodic junction.
Homogenization of the transport equation describing convection-diffusion processes in a material with fine periodic structure
In the present contribution we discuss mathematical homogenization and numerical solution of the elliptic problem describing convection-diffusion processes in a material with fine periodic structure. Transport processes such as heat conduction or transport of contaminants through porous media are typically associated with convection-diffusion equations. It is well known that the application of the classical Galerkin finite element method is inappropriate in this case since the discrete solution...
Homogenization of thin piezoelectric perforated shells
We rigorously establish the existence of the limit homogeneous constitutive law of a piezoelectric composite made of periodically perforated microstructures and whose reference configuration is a thin shell with fixed thickness. We deal with an extension of the Koiter shell model in which the three curvilinear coordinates of the elastic displacement field and the electric potential are coupled. By letting the size of the microstructure going to zero and by using the periodic unfolding method combined...
Homogenization of two randomly weakly connected materials.
Homogenization with uncertain input parameters
We homogenize a class of nonlinear differential equations set in highly heterogeneous media. Contrary to the usual approach, the coefficients in the equation characterizing the material properties are supposed to be uncertain functions from a given set of admissible data. The problem with uncertainties is treated by means of the worst scenario method, when we look for a solution which is critical in some sense.
Homogenized double porosity models for poro-elastic media with interfacial flow barrier
In the paper a Barenblatt-Biot consolidation model for flows in periodic porous elastic media is derived by means of the two-scale convergence technique. Starting with the fluid flow of a slightly compressible viscous fluid through a two-component poro-elastic medium separated by a periodic interfacial barrier, described by the Biot model of consolidation with the Deresiewicz-Skalak interface boundary condition and assuming that the period is too small compared with the size of the medium, the limiting...
Homogenized model for flow in partially fractured media.
Homogenized models for a short-time filtration in elastic porous media.
Instability of oscillations in cable-stayed bridges
In this paper the stability of two basic types of cable stayed bridges, suspended by one or two rows of cables, is studied. Two linearized models of the center span describing the vertical and torsional oscillations are investigated. After the analysis of these models, a stability criterion is formulated. The criterion expresses a relation between the eigenvalues of the vertical and torsional oscillations of the center span. The continuous dependence of the eigenvalues on some data is studied and...
Is it wise to keep laminating?
We study the corrector matrix to the conductivity equations. We show that if converges weakly to the identity, then for any laminate at almost every point. This simple property is shown to be false for generic microgeometries if the dimension is greater than two in the work Briane et al. [Arch. Ration. Mech. Anal., to appear]. In two dimensions it holds true for any microgeometry as a corollary of the work in Alessandrini and Nesi [Arch. Ration. Mech. Anal.158 (2001) 155-171]. We use this...
Is it wise to keep laminating ?
We study the corrector matrix to the conductivity equations. We show that if converges weakly to the identity, then for any laminate at almost every point. This simple property is shown to be false for generic microgeometries if the dimension is greater than two in the work Briane et al. [Arch. Ration. Mech. Anal., to appear]. In two dimensions it holds true for any microgeometry as a corollary of the work in Alessandrini and Nesi [Arch. Ration. Mech. Anal. 158 (2001) 155-171]. We use this...
Limit behavior of an oscillating thin layer.
Limit behaviour of thin insulating layers around multiconnected domains
Linear flow in porous media with double periodicity.
Locally periodic homogenization of reflected diffusion.
Long time averaged reflection force and homogenization of oscillating Neumann boundary conditions
Mathematical Homogenization in the Modelling of Digestion in the Small Intestine
Digestion in the small intestine is the result of complex mechanical and biological phenomena which can be modelled at different scales. In a previous article, we introduced a system of ordinary differential equations for describing the transport and degradation-absorption processes during the digestion. The present article sustains this simplified model by showing that it can be seen as a macroscopic version of more realistic models including biological phenomena at lower scales. In other words,...
Mathematical modelling of cable stayed bridges: existence, uniqueness, continuous dependence on data, homogenization of cable systems
A model of a cable stayed bridge is proposed. This model describes the behaviour of the center span, the part between pylons, hung on one row of cable stays. The existence, the uniqueness of a solution of a time independent problem and the continuous dependence on data are proved. The existence and the uniqueness of a solution of a linearized dynamic problem are proved. A homogenizing procedure making it possible to replace cables by a continuous system is proposed. A nonlinear dynamic problem connected...
Mesures semi-classiques et croisement de modes
L’étude de la dynamique semi-classique d’électrons dans un cristal débouche naturellement sur le problème de l’évolution des mesures semi-classiques en présence d’un croisement de modes. Dans ce travail, nous étudions un système qui présente un tel croisement. À cet effet, nous introduisons des mesures semi-classiques à deux échelles qui décrivent comment la transformée de Wigner usuelle se concentre sur l’ensemble des trajectoires rencontrant ce croisement. Puis nous établissons des formules...
Mesures semi-classiques et mesures de défaut