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## Singular limit for reactive transport through a thin heterogeneous layer including a nonlinear diffusion coefficient

 Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing, University of Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 205, Heidelberg, 69120, Germany

Received  May 2021 Revised  August 2021 Early access September 2021

Fund Project: The work of the author was supported by the Odysseus program of the Research Foundation - Flanders FWO (Project-Nr. G0G1316N) and the project SCIDATOS (Scientific Computing for Improved Detection and Therapy of Sepsis), which was funded by the Klaus Tschira Foundation, Germany (Grant number 00.0277.2015)

Reactive transport processes in porous media including thin heterogeneous layers play an important role in many applications. In this paper, we investigate a reaction-diffusion problem with nonlinear diffusion in a domain consisting of two bulk domains which are separated by a thin layer with a periodic heterogeneous structure. The thickness of the layer, as well as the periodicity within the layer are of order $\epsilon$, where $\epsilon$ is much smaller than the size of the bulk domains. For the singular limit $\epsilon \to 0$, when the thin layer reduces to an interface, we rigorously derive a macroscopic model with effective interface conditions between the two bulk domains. Due to the oscillations within the layer, we have the combine dimension reduction techniques with methods from the homogenization theory. To cope with these difficulties, we make use of the two-scale convergence in thin heterogeneous layers. However, in our case the diffusion in the thin layer is low and depends nonlinearly on the concentration itself. The low diffusion leads to a two-scale limit depending on a macroscopic and a microscopic variable. Hence, weak compactness results based on standard a priori estimates are not enough to pass to the limit $\epsilon \to 0$ in the nonlinear terms. Therefore, we derive strong two-scale compactness results based on a variational principle. Further, we establish uniqueness for the microscopic and the macroscopic model.

Citation: Markus Gahn. Singular limit for reactive transport through a thin heterogeneous layer including a nonlinear diffusion coefficient. Communications on Pure & Applied Analysis, doi: 10.3934/cpaa.2021167
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The microscopic domain $\Omega_{\epsilon}$ containing the thin layer $\Omega_{\epsilon}$ with periodic structure for $n = 2$. The heterogeneous structure for the thin layer is modeled by the oscillating diffusion coefficient $D\left( \frac{x}{\epsilon}\right)$
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