• Media type: Text; E-Book; Report
  • Title: Error estimates for elliptic equations with not exactly periodic coefficients
  • Contributor: Reichelt, Sina [Author]
  • imprint: Weierstrass Institute for Applied Analysis and Stochastics publication server, 2016
  • Language: English
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.20347/WIAS.PREPRINT.2260
  • Keywords: 35D30 ; homogenization -- error estimates -- periodic unfolding -- gradient folding operator ; 35J70 ; 35B27 ; 35B40 ; 35B10 ; article
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  • Description: This note is devoted to the derivation of quantitative estimates for linear elliptic equations with coefficients that are not exactly ε-periodic and the ellipticity constant may degenerate for vanishing ε. Here ε>0 denotes the ratio between the microscopic and the macroscopic length scale. It is shown that for degenerating and non-degenerating coefficients the error between the original solution and the effective solution is of order √ε. Therefore suitable test functions are constructed via the periodic unfolding method and a gradient folding operator making only minimal additional assumptions on the given data and the effective solution with respect to the macroscopic scale.