Operator estimates for non-periodically perforated domains with Dirichlet and nonlinear Robin conditions: vanishing limit

We consider a general second order linear elliptic equation in a finely perforated domain. The shapes of cavities and their distribution in the domain are arbitrary and non-periodic; they are supposed to satisfy minimal natural geometric conditions. On the boundaries of the cavities we impose either the Dirichlet or a nonlinear Robin condition; the choice of the type of the boundary condition for each cavity is arbitrary. Then we suppose that for some cavities the nonlinear Robin condition is sign-definite in certain sense. Provided such cavities and ones with the Dirichlet condition are distributed rather densely in the domain and the characteristic sizes of the cavities and the minimal distances between the cavities satisfy certain simple condition, we show that a solution to our problem tends to zero as the perforation becomes finer. Our main result are order sharp estimates for the L-2- and W-2(1)-norms of the solution uniform in the L-2-norm of the right hand side in the equation.

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In this paper, we consider a second order linear elliptic equation in a finely perforated domain. The shapes and distribution of cavities in the domain are arbitrary and non-periodic, and the boundary conditions can be either Dirichlet or nonlinear Robin conditions. We show that under certain conditions, the solution to our problem tends to zero as the perforation becomes finer.