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Main Authors: Gahn, Markus, Neuss-Radu, Maria
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04607
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author Gahn, Markus
Neuss-Radu, Maria
author_facet Gahn, Markus
Neuss-Radu, Maria
contents This paper presents a rigorous derivation of an effective model for fluid flow through a thin elastic porous membrane separating two fluid bulk domains. The microscopic setting involves a periodically structured porous membrane composed of a solid phase and fluid-filled pores, with thickness and periodicity of order $\varepsilon$, small compared to the size of the bulk regions. The microscopic model is governed by a coupled fluid-structure interaction system: instationary Stokes equations for the fluid and linear elasticity for the solid, with two distinct scalings of the elastic stress tensor yielding different effective behaviors. Using two-scale convergence techniques adapted to thin domains and oscillatory microstructures, the membrane is reduced to an effective interface across which transmission conditions are derived. The resulting macroscopic model couples the bulk fluid domains via effective interface laws of Navier-slip-type including the dynamic displacement. The character of this coupling depends critically on the choice of the scaling in the elastic stress tensor, leading to either a membrane equation or a Kirchhoff-Love plate equation for the effective displacement. The resulting interface conditions naturally admit mass exchange between the adjacent fluid regions. In the analytical framework, a new two-scale compactness theorem for the symmetric gradient is established, underpinning the passage to the limit in the coupled system. Moreover, cell problem techniques are employed systematically to construct admissible test functions and to rigorously extract the effective macroscopic coefficients.
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spellingShingle Effective interface laws of Navier-slip-type involving the elastic displacement for Stokes flow through a thin porous elastic layer
Gahn, Markus
Neuss-Radu, Maria
Analysis of PDEs
This paper presents a rigorous derivation of an effective model for fluid flow through a thin elastic porous membrane separating two fluid bulk domains. The microscopic setting involves a periodically structured porous membrane composed of a solid phase and fluid-filled pores, with thickness and periodicity of order $\varepsilon$, small compared to the size of the bulk regions. The microscopic model is governed by a coupled fluid-structure interaction system: instationary Stokes equations for the fluid and linear elasticity for the solid, with two distinct scalings of the elastic stress tensor yielding different effective behaviors. Using two-scale convergence techniques adapted to thin domains and oscillatory microstructures, the membrane is reduced to an effective interface across which transmission conditions are derived. The resulting macroscopic model couples the bulk fluid domains via effective interface laws of Navier-slip-type including the dynamic displacement. The character of this coupling depends critically on the choice of the scaling in the elastic stress tensor, leading to either a membrane equation or a Kirchhoff-Love plate equation for the effective displacement. The resulting interface conditions naturally admit mass exchange between the adjacent fluid regions. In the analytical framework, a new two-scale compactness theorem for the symmetric gradient is established, underpinning the passage to the limit in the coupled system. Moreover, cell problem techniques are employed systematically to construct admissible test functions and to rigorously extract the effective macroscopic coefficients.
title Effective interface laws of Navier-slip-type involving the elastic displacement for Stokes flow through a thin porous elastic layer
topic Analysis of PDEs
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04607