Speaker: 

Zhongwei Shen

Institution: 

University of Kentucky

Time: 

Tuesday, March 12, 2013 - 3:00pm to 4:00pm

Host: 

Location: 

306RH

 

In the talk I will describe my recent work, joint with Carlos Kenig and
Fanghua Lin, on homogenization of the Green and Neumann functions for a family of second order elliptic systems with highly oscillatory periodic coefficients. We study the asymptotic behavior of the first derivatives of the Green and Neumann functions, using Dirichlet and Neumann correctors. As a result, we obtain asymptotic expansions of Poisson kernels and the Dirichlet-to-Neumann maps as well as optimal convergence rates in L^p and W^{1,p} for solutions with Dirichlet or Neumann boundary conditions.