Asymptotic study of a nonlinear elliptic boundary Steklov problem on a nanostructure

Abstract

The present study is related to the existence and the asymptotic behavior of the solution of a nonlinear elliptic Steklov problem imposed on a nanostructure depending on the thickness parameter ε\varepsilon (nano-scale), distributed on the boundary of the domain when the parameter ε\varepsilon goes to 0, under some appropriate conditions on the data involved in the problem. We use epi-convergence method in order to establish the limit behavior by characterizing the weak limits of the energies for the solutions. An intermediate step in the proof provides a homogenization result for the considered structure.

Keywords

• asymptotic behavior
• homogenization
• steklov condition
• epi-convergence method
• limit problems
• 35b40
• 35b27
• 35j66
• 49j45
• 70k05