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In this talk, we shall present some homogenization results, obtained via the periodic unfolding method, for thermal diffusion problems in a highly heterogeneous periodic composite material formed by two constituents, separated by an imperfect interface where the temperature and the flux exhibit jumps. Depending on the geometry of the composite medium, on the properties of its two constituents and on the magnitude of the jump of the solution and of the flux across the imperfect interface, various types of problems arise at the macroscale. These problems capture in various ways the influence of the jumps: in the effective coefficients, in the right-hand side of the homogenized problem, and in the correctors, as well. Joint work with Renata Bunoiu (Université de Lorraine – Metz, France)

Nous montrons avec I.Shafrir qu’une solution localement minimisante non constante de $R^3$ à  valeurs dans $R^2$ de l’équation de Ginzburg-Landau a une énergie qui croît au moins comme celle du filament de vorticité. Nous conjecturons d’ailleurs que le filament de vorticité est l’unique solution localement minimisante.

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We consider a domain which has the form of a brush in 3D or the form of a comb in 2D, i.e. an open set which is composed of cylindrical vertical teeth distributed over a fixed basis. All the teeth have a similar fixed height; their cross sections can vary from one teeth to another one and are not supposed to be smooth; moreover the teeth can be adjacent, i.e. they can share parts of their boundaries. The diameter of every tooth is supposed to be less than or equal to epsilon, and the asymptotic volume fraction of the teeth (as epsilon tends to zero) is supposed to be bounded from below away from zero, but no periodicity is assumed on the distribution of the teeth. In this domain we study the asymptotic behavior, as epsilon tends to zero, of the solution of a second order elliptic equation with a zeroth order term which is bounded from below away from zero, when the homogeneous Neumann boundary condition is imposed on the whole of the boundary. First, we revisit the problem where the source term belongs to L2. This is a classical problem, but our homogenization result takes place in a geometry which is more general that the ones which have been considered before. Moreover we prove a corrector result which is new. Then, we study the case where the source term belongs to L1. Working in the framework of renormalized solutions and introducing a definition of renormalized solutions for degenerate elliptic equations where only the vertical derivative is involved (such a definition is new), we identify the limit problem and prove a corrector result. This is joint work with Olivier Guibé (Université de Rouen, France) and Francois Murat (CNRS, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris VI, France).

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Nous présenterons divers résultats concernant la modélisation probabiliste de phénomènes de diffusion dans des milieux comportant des interfaces (barrières perméables et semi-perméables par exemple) qui peuvent être dues à des discontinuités de la diffusivité. Bien que les processus de diffusion s’interprètent naturellement comme des particules qui se déplacent aléatoirement dans le milieu, les interfaces présentent des difficultés de modélisation. Nous finirons par quelques méthodes probabilistes de type Monte Carlo spécifiques à ces problèmes ainsi que les problèmes encore ouverts.