Methods and Applications of Analysis

Very Weak Estimates for a Rough Poisson-Dirichlet Problem with Natural Vertical Boundary Conditions

Vuk Milišić

Source: Methods Appl. Anal. Volume 16, Number 2 (2009), 157-186.

Abstract

This work is a continuation of [3]; it deals with rough boundaries in the simplified context of a Poisson equation. We impose Dirichlet boundary conditions on the periodic microscopic perturbation of a flat edge on one side and natural homogeneous Neumann boundary conditions are applied on the inlet/outlet of the domain. To prevent oscillations on the Neumann-like boundaries, we introduce a microscopic vertical corrector defined in a rough quarter-plane. In [3] we studied a priori estimates in this setting; here we fully develop very weak estimates à la Nečas [17] in the weighted Sobolev spaces on an unbounded domain. We obtain optimal estimates which improve those derived in [3]. We validate these results numerically, proving first order results for boundary layer approximation including the vertical correctors and a little less for the averaged wall-law introduced in the literature [13, 18].

Primary Subjects: 76D05, 35B27, 76Mxx, 65Mxx
Keywords: Wall-laws; rough boundary; Laplace equation; multi-scale modelling; boundary layers; error estimates; natural boundary conditions; vertical boundary correctors

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