Effective Conductivity of Nonlinear Two-Phase Media: Homogenization and Two-Point Padé Approximants

The aim of this paper is a study of the quasilinear transport equation, for instance the stationary heat equation. For periodically microheterogeneous media asymptotic homogenization has been performed with the local problem formulated as a minimization problem. The Golden–Papanicolaou integral representation theorem and some bounds developed for the linear equation have been extended. Two-point Padé approximants have been used to calculate bounds. Examples are also provided.

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