Abstract

We consider a homogenization problem for the Laplace operator posed in a bounded domain of the upper half-space, a part of its boundary being in contact with the plane {x_3=0}. On this part, the boundary conditions alternate from Neumann to nonlinear-Robin, being of Dirichlet type outside. The nonlinear-Robin boundary conditions are imposed on small regions periodically placed along the plane and contain a Robin parameter that can be very large. We provide all the possible homogenized problems, depending on the relations between the three parameters: period varepsilon , size of the small regions r_varepsilon and Robin parameter beta (varepsilon ). In particular, we address the convergence, as varepsilon tends to zero, of the solutions for the critical size of the small regions r_varepsilon =O(varepsilon ^{ 2}). For certain beta (varepsilon ), a nonlinear capacity term arises in the strange term which depends on the macroscopic variable and allows us to extend the usual capacity definition to semilinear boundary conditions.

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