We study Brinkman's equations with microscale properties that ar ehighly heterogeneous in space and time. The time variations are controlled by a stochastic particle dynamics described by an SDE. Our main results include the derivation of macroscale equations and showing that the macroscale equations are deterministic. We use the asymptotic properties of the SDE and the periodicity of the Brinkman's coefficient in the space variable to prove the convergence result. The SDE has a unique invariant measure that is ergodic and strongly mixing. The macro scale equations are derived through an averaging principle of the slow motion (fluid velocity) with respect to the fast motion (particle dynamics) and also by averaging the Brinkman's coefficient with respect to the space variable. Our results can be extended to more general nonlinear diffusion equations with heterogeneous coefficients.
This is a joint work with Yalchin Efendiev and Florian Maris.
HOMOGENIZATION OF BRINKMAN FLOWS IN HETEROGENEOUS DYNAMIC MEDIA
HOMOGENIZATION OF BRINKMAN FLOWS IN HETEROGENEOUS DYNAMIC MEDIA