On the effective interfacial resistance through quasi-filling fractal layers

Abstract

This paper concerns the periodic homogenization of the stationary heat equation in a domain with two connected components, separated by an oscillating interface defined on prefractal Koch type curves. The problem depends both on the parameter ε that defines the periodic structure of the interface and on n, which is the index of the prefractal iteration. First, we study the limit as ε vanishes, showing that the homogenized problem is strictly dependent on the amplitude of the oscillations and the parameter appearing in the transmission condition. Finally, we perform the asymptotic behaviour as n goes to infinity, giving rise to a limit problem defined on a domain with fractal interface.