TY - BOOK AU - Tartar,Luc ED - SpringerLink (Online service) TI - The General Theory of Homogenization: A Personalized Introduction T2 - Lecture Notes of the Unione Matematica Italiana, SN - 9783642051951 AV - QA370-380 U1 - 515.353 23 PY - 2010/// CY - Berlin, Heidelberg PB - Springer Berlin Heidelberg KW - Mathematics KW - Differential equations, partial KW - Mechanics KW - Hydraulic engineering KW - Partial Differential Equations KW - Engineering Fluid Dynamics N1 - Why Do I Write? -- A Personalized Overview of Homogenization I -- A Personalized Overview of Homogenization II -- An Academic Question of Jacques-Louis Lions -- A Useful Generalization by François Murat -- Homogenization of an Elliptic Equation -- The Div–Curl Lemma -- Physical Implications of Homogenization -- A Framework with Differential Forms -- Properties of H-Convergence -- Homogenization of Monotone Operators -- Homogenization of Laminated Materials -- Correctors in Linear Homogenization -- Correctors in Nonlinear Homogenization -- Holes with Dirichlet Conditions -- Holes with Neumann Conditions -- Compensated Compactness -- A Lemma for Studying Boundary Layers -- A Model in Hydrodynamics -- Problems in Dimension = 2 -- Bounds on Effective Coefficients -- Functions Attached to Geometries -- Memory Effects -- Other Nonlocal Effects -- The Hashin–Shtrikman Construction -- Confocal Ellipsoids and Spheres -- Laminations Again, and Again -- Wave Front Sets, H-Measures -- Small-Amplitude Homogenization -- H-Measures and Bounds on Effective Coefficients -- H-Measures and Propagation Effects -- Variants of H-Measures -- Relations Between Young Measures and H-Measures -- Conclusion -- Biographical Information -- Abbreviations and Mathematical Notation N2 - Homogenization is not about periodicity, or Gamma-convergence, but about understanding which effective equations to use at macroscopic level, knowing which partial differential equations govern mesoscopic levels, without using probabilities (which destroy physical reality); instead, one uses various topologies of weak type, the G-convergence of Sergio Spagnolo, the H-convergence of François Murat and the author, and some responsible for the appearance of nonlocal effects, which many theories in continuum mechanics or physics guessed wrongly. For a better understanding of 20th century science, new mathematical tools must be introduced, like the author’s H-measures, variants by Patrick Gérard, and others yet to be discovered UR - http://148.231.10.114:2048/login?url=http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-642-05195-1 ER -