Homogenization of nonstationary periodic Maxwell system in the case of constant permeability

TL;DR

This paper develops homogenization techniques for a nonstationary periodic Maxwell system with constant permeability, deriving operator convergence results and error estimates for the effective behavior of electromagnetic fields.

Contribution

It introduces new homogenization results for the Maxwell system with periodic dielectric permittivity and constant permeability, including operator norm convergence and corrector approximations.

Findings

Operators converge to the effective operator in operator norm

Error estimates for the approximation are established

Results apply to the homogenization of the Maxwell Cauchy problem

Abstract

In $L_2({\mathbb R}^3;{\mathbb C}^3)$, we consider a selfadjoint operator ${\mathcal L}_\varepsilon$, $\varepsilon >0$, given by the differential expression $\mu_0^{-1/2}\operatorname{curl} \eta(\mathbf{x}/\varepsilon)^{-1} \operatorname{curl} \mu_0^{-1/2} - \mu_0^{1/2}\nabla \nu(\mathbf{x}/\varepsilon) \operatorname{div} \mu_0^{1/2}$, where $\mu_0$ is a constant positive matrix, a matrix-valued function $\eta(\mathbf{x})$ and a real-valued function $\nu(\mathbf{x})$ are periodic with respect to some lattice, positive definite and bounded. We study the behavior of the operator-valued functions $\cos (\tau {\mathcal L}_\varepsilon^{1/2})$ and ${\mathcal L}_\varepsilon^{-1/2} \sin (\tau {\mathcal L}_\varepsilon^{1/2})$ for $\tau \in {\mathbb R}$ and small $\varepsilon$. It is shown that these operators converge to the corresponding operator-valued functions of the operator ${\mathcal L}^0$ in the norm of operators acting from the Sobolev space $H^s$ (with a suitable $s$) to $L_2$. Here ${\mathcal L}^0$ is the effective operator with constant coefficients. Also, an approximation with corrector in the $(H^s \to H^1)$-norm for the operator ${\mathcal L}_\varepsilon^{-1/2} \sin (\tau {\mathcal L}_\varepsilon^{1/2})$ is obtained. We prove error estimates and study the sharpness of the results regarding the type of the operator norm and regarding the dependence of the estimates on $\tau$. The results are applied to homogenization of the Cauchy problem for the nonstationary Maxwell system in the case where the magnetic permeability is equal to $\mu_0$, and the dielectric permittivity is given by the matrix $\eta(\mathbf{x}/\varepsilon)$.