Homogenization of a Continuously Microperiodic Multidimensional Medium

ABSTRACT The asymptotic homogenization method is applied to obtain formal asymptotic solution and the homogenized solution of a Dirichlet boundary-value problem for an elliptic equation with rapidly oscillating coefficients. The proximity of the formal asymptotic solution and the homogenized solution to the exact solution is proved, which provides the mathematical justification of the homogenization process. Preservation of the symmetry and positive-definiteness of the effective coefficient in the homogenized problem is also proved. An example is presented in order to illustrate the theoretical results.