On the Homogenization of a Damped Wave Equation

The goal of this paper is to analyze the effective behavior of the solution of a wave equation with interior and boundary damping, defined in a periodically perforated medium. We deal, at the microscale, with an epsilon-periodic structure obtained by removing from a bounded connected open set Omega in R-n a number of closed subsets of characteristic size epsilon. As a result, we obtain a perforated domain Omega(epsilon), in which we consider a wave equation, with interior sources and damping and with dynamic boundary conditions imposed on the boundaries of the perforations. Assuming suitable initial conditions, we prove that the asymptotic behavior, as the small parameter epsilon which characterizes the size of the perforations tends to zero, of the solution of such a problem is governed by a parabolic equation, defined on the entire domain Omega.