Abstract
We introduce a new variational method for the numerical homogenization of divergence form elliptic, parabolic and hyperbolic equations with arbitrary rough ($L^\infty$) coefficients. Our method does not rely on concepts of ergodicity or scale-separation but on compactness properties of the solution space and a new variational approach to homogenization. The approximation space is generated by an interpolation basis (over scattered points forming a mesh of resolution $H$) minimizing the $L^2$ norm of the source terms; its (pre-)computation involves minimizing $\mathcal{O}(H^{-d})$ quadratic (cell) problems on (super-)localized sub-domains of size $\mathcal{O}(H \ln (1/ H))$. The resulting localized linear systems remain sparse and banded. The resulting interpolation basis functions are biharmonic for $d\leq 3$, and polyharmonic for $d\geq 4$, for the operator $-\diiv(a\nabla \cdot)$ and can be seen as a generalization of polyharmonic splines to differential operators with arbitrary rough coefficients. The accuracy of the method ($\mathcal{O}(H)$ in energy norm and independent from aspect ratios of the mesh formed by the scattered points) is established via the introduction of a new class of higher-order Poincar\'{e} inequalities. The method bypasses (pre-)computations on the full domain and naturally generalizes to time dependent problems, it also provides a natural solution to the inverse problem of recovering the solution of a divergence form elliptic equation from a finite number of point measurements.
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