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Homogenization in gradient plasticity
2009, Hanke, Hauke
This paper yields a two-scale homogenization result for a rate-independent elastoplastic system. The presented model is a generalization of the classical model of linearized elastoplacticity with hardening, which is extended by a gradient term of the plastic variables. The associated stored elastic energy density has periodically oscillating coefficients, where the period is scaled by e > 0 . The additional gradient term of the plastic variables z is contained in the elastic energy with a prefactor e? (? = 0) . We derive different limiting models for e ? 0 in dependence of &gamma ;. For ? > 1 the limiting model is the two-scale model derived in [MielkeTimofte07], where no gradient term was present. For ? = 1 the gradient term of the plastic variable survives on the microscopic cell poblem, while for ? ? [0,1) the limit model is defined in terms of a plastic variable without microscopic fluctuation. The latter model can be simplified to a purely macroscopic elastoplasticity model by homogenisation of the elastic part
Two-scale homogenization of nonlinear reaction-diffusion systems with slow diffusion
2013, Mielke, Alexander, Reichelt, Sina, Thomas, Marita
We derive a two-scale homogenization limit for reaction-diffusion systems where for some species the diffusion length is of order 1 whereas for the other species the diffusion length is of the order of the periodic microstructure. Thus, in the limit the latter species will display diffusion only on the microscale but not on the macroscale. Because of this missing compactness, the nonlinear coupling through the reaction terms cannot be homogenized but needs to be treated on the two-scale level. In particular, we have to develop new error estimates to derive strong convergence results for passing to the limit.
Error estimates for nonlinear reaction-diffusion systems involving different diffusion length scales
2014, Reichelt, Sina
We derive quantitative error estimates for coupled reaction-diffusion systems, whose coefficient functions are quasi-periodically oscillating modeling microstructure of the underlying macroscopic domain. The coupling arises via nonlinear reaction terms, and we allow for different diffusion length scales, i.e. whereas some species have characteristic diffusion length of order 1, other species may diffuse much slower, namely, with order of the characteristic microstructure-length scale. We consider an effective system, which is rigorously obtained via two-scale convergence, and we prove that the error of its solution to the original solution is of order 1/2.