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- ItemGeneralized Prandtl-Ishlinskii operators arising from homogenization and dimension reduction(Berlin : Weierstraß-Institut für Angewandte Analysis und Stochastik, 2011) Mielke, AlexanderWe consider rate-independent evolutionary systems over a physically domain Ω that are governed by simple hysteresis operators at each material point. For multiscale systems where ε denotes the ratio between the microscopic and the macroscopic length scale, we show that in the limit ε → 0 we are led to systems where the hysteresis operators at each macroscopic point is a generalized Prandtl-Ishlinskii operator.
- ItemDerivation of effective models from heterogenous Cosserat media via periodic unfolding(Berlin : Weierstraß-Institut für Angewandte Analysis und Stochastik, 2021) Nika, GrigorWe derive two different effective models from a heterogeneous Cosserat continuum taking into account the Cosserat intrinsic length of the constituents. We pass to the limit using homogenization via periodic unfolding and in doing so we provide rigorous proof to the results introduced by Forest, Pradel, and Sab (Int. J. Solids Structures 38 (26-27): 4585-4608 '01). Depending on how different characteristic lengths of the domain scale with respect to the Cosserat intrinsic length, we obtain either an effective classical Cauchy continuum or an effective Cosserat continuum. Moreover, we provide some corrector type results for each case.
- ItemHomogenization and Orowan's law for anisotropic fractional operators of any order(Berlin : Weierstraß-Institut für Angewandte Analysis und Stochastik, 2014) Patrizi, Stefania; Valdinoci, EnricoWe consider an anisotropic Lévy operator Is of any order s 2 (0, 1) and we consider the homogenization properties of an evolution equation. The scaling properties and the effective Hamiltonian that we obtain is different according to the cases s < 1/2 and s > 1/2. In the isotropic onedimensional case, we also prove a statement related to the so-called Orowans law, that is an appropriate scaling of the effective Hamiltonian presents a linear behavior.
- ItemHomogenization of a porous intercalation electrode with phase separation(Berlin : Weierstraß-Institut für Angewandte Analysis und Stochastik, 2021) Heida, Martin; Landstorfer, Manuel; Liero, MatthiasIn this work, we derive a new model framework for a porous intercalation electrode with a phase separating active material upon lithium intercalation. We start from a microscopic model consisting of transport equations for lithium ions in an electrolyte phase and intercalated lithium in a solid active phase. Both are coupled through a Neumann--boundary condition modeling the lithium intercalation reaction. The active material phase is considered to be phase separating upon lithium intercalation. We assume that the porous material is a given periodic microstructure and perform analytical homogenization. Effectively, the microscopic model consists of a diffusion and a Cahn--Hilliard equation, whereas the limit model consists of a diffusion and an Allen--Cahn equation. Thus we observe a Cahn--Hilliard to Allen--Cahn transition during the upscaling process. In the sense of gradient flows, the transition goes in hand with a change in the underlying metric structure of the PDE system.
- ItemA modeling framework for efficient reduced order simulations of parametrized lithium-ion battery cells(Berlin : Weierstraß-Institut für Angewandte Analysis und Stochastik, 2021) Landstorfer, Manuel; Ohlberger, Mario; Rave, Stephan; Tacke, MarieIn this contribution we present a new modeling and simulation framework for parametrized Lithium-ion battery cells. We first derive a new continuum model for a rather general intercalation battery cell on the basis of non-equilibrium thermodynamics. In order to efficiently evaluate the resulting parameterized non-linear system of partial differential equations the reduced basis method is employed. The reduced basis method is a model order reduction technique on the basis of an incremental hierarchical approximate proper orthogonal decomposition approach and empirical operator interpolation. The modeling framework is particularly well suited to investigate and quantify degradation effects of battery cells. Several numerical experiments are given to demonstrate the scope and efficiency of the modeling framework.
- ItemAn existence result and evolutionary [Gamma]-convergence for perturbed gradient systems(Berlin : Weierstraß-Institut für Angewandte Analysis und Stochastik, 2018) Bacho, Aras; Emmrich, Etienne; Mielke, AlexanderWe consider the initial-value problem for the perturbed gradient flows, where a differential inclusion is formulated in terms of a subdifferential of an energy functional, a subdifferential of a dissipation potential and a more general perturbation, which is assumed to be continuous and to satisfy a suitable growth condition. Under additional assumptions on the dissipation potential and the energy functional, existence of strong solutions is shown by proving convergence of a semi-implicit discretization scheme with a variational approximation technique.
- ItemDeriving effective models for multiscale systems via evolutionary Gamma-convergence(Berlin : Weierstraß-Institut für Angewandte Analysis und Stochastik, 2015) Mielke, AlexanderWe discuss possible extensions of the recently established theory of evolutionary Gamma-convergence for gradient systems to nonlinear dynamical systems obtained by perturbation of a gradient systems. Thus, it is possible to derive effective equations for pattern forming systems with multiple scales. Our applications include homogenization of reaction-diffusion systems, the justification of amplitude equations for Turing instabilities, and the limit from pure diffusion to reaction-diffusion. This is achieved by generalizing the Gamma-limit approaches based on the energy-dissipation principle or the volutionary variational estimate.
- ItemA gradient system with a wiggly energy and relaxed EDP-convergence(Berlin : Weierstraß-Institut für Angewandte Analysis und Stochastik, 2017) Dondl, Patrick; Frenzel, Thomas; Mielke, AlexanderIf gradient systems depend on a microstructure, we want to derive a macroscopic gradient structure describing the effective behavior of the microscopic system. We introduce a notion of evolutionary Gamma-convergence that relates the microscopic energy and the microscopic dissipation potential with their macroscopic limits via Gammaconvergence. We call this notion relaxed EDP-convergence since the special structure of the dissipation functional may not be preserved under Gamma-convergence. However, by investigating the kinetic relation we derive the macroscopic dissipation potential.
- ItemPositivity and time behavior of a general linear evolution system, non-local in space and time(Berlin : Weierstraß-Institut für Angewandte Analysis und Stochastik, 2007) Khrabustovskyi, Andrii; Stephan, HolgerWe consider a general linear reaction-diffusion system in three dimensions and time, containing diffusion (local interaction), jumps (nonlocal interaction) and memory effects. We prove a maximum principle, and positivity of the solution, and investigate its asymptotic behavior. Moreover, we give an explicite expression of the limit of the solution for large times. In order to obtain these results we use the following method: We construct a Riemannian manifold with complicated microstructure depending on a small parameter. We study the asymptotic behavior of the solution of a simple diffusion equation on this manifold as the small parameter tends to zero. It turns out that the homogenized system coincides with the original reaction-diffusion system what allows us to investigate its properties.
- ItemHomogenization theory for the random conductance model with degenerate ergodic weights and unbounded-range jumps(Berlin : Weierstraß-Institut für Angewandte Analysis und Stochastik, 2017) Flegel, Franziska; Heida, Martin; Slowik, MartinWe study homogenization properties of the discrete Laplace operator with random conductances on a large domain in Zd. More precisely, we prove almost-sure homogenization of the discrete Poisson equation and of the top of the Dirichlet spectrum. We assume that the conductances are stationary, ergodic and nearest-neighbor conductances are positive. In contrast to earlier results, we do not require uniform ellipticity but certain integrability conditions on the lower and upper tails of the conductances. We further allow jumps of arbitrary length. Without the long-range connections, the integrability condition on the lower tail is optimal for spectral homogenization. It coincides with a necessary condition for the validity of a local central limit theorem for the random walk among random conductances. As an application of spectral homogenization, we prove a quenched large deviation principle for the normalized and rescaled local times of the random walk in a growing box. Our proofs are based on a compactness result for the Laplacian’s Dirichlet energy, Poincaré inequalities, Moser iteration and two-scale convergence.