Joined Colloquium of SFB 1114 and SFB 1294 with Felix Otto - Effective behavior of random media

05.04.2019, 10:15-11:15  –  Campus Griebnitzsee, H. 06, R. 3
SFB-Kolloquium

Felix Otto (Max-Planck-Institut für Mathematik in den Naturwissenschaften, Leipzig)

In engineering applications, heterogeneous media are often described in statistical terms. This partial knowledge is sufficient to determine the effective, i. e. large-scale behavior. This effective behavior may be inferred from the Representative Volume Element (RVE) method. I report on last years' progress on the quantitative understanding of what is called stochastic homogenization of elliptic partial differential equations: optimal error estimates of the RVE method, leading-order characterization of fluctuations, effective multipole expansions. Methods connect to elliptic regularity theory and to concentration of measure arguments.