Singular large diffusivity and spatial homogenization in a non homogeneous linear parabolic problem
Anı́bal Rodriguez-Bernal, Robert Willie · Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - B · 2005
We make precise the sense in which spatial homogenization to a constant function in space is attained in a linear parabolic problem when large diffusion in all parts of the domain is assumed. Also interaction between diffusion and boundary flux terms is considered. Our starting point is a detailed analysis of the large diffusion effects on the associated elliptic and eigenvalue problems. Here convergence is shown in the energy space $H^1(\Omega)$ and in the space of continuous functions $C(\overline{\Omega})$. In the parabolic case we prove convergence in the functional space $L^\infty ((0,T),L^2(\Omega)) \bigcap L^2 ((0,T),H^1(\Omega)).