A comparison between two-scale asymptotic expansions and Bloch wave expansions for the homogenization of periodic structures
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In this paper we make a comparison between the two-scale asymptotic expansion method for periodic homogenization and the so-called Bloch wave method. It is wellknown that the homogenized tensor coincides with the Hessian matrix of the first Bloch eigenvalue when the Bloch parameter vanishes. In the context of the two-scale asymptotic expansion method, there is the notion of high order homogenized equation [6] where the homogenized equation can be improved by adding small additional higher order differential terms. The next non-zero high order term is a fourth-order term, accounting for dispersion effects (see e.g. [24], [19], [16]). Surprisingly, this homogenized fourth-order tensor is not equal to the fourth-order tensor arising in the Taylor expansion of the first Bloch eigenvalue, which is often called Burnett tensor. Here, we establish an exact relation between the homogenized fourth-order tensor and the Burnett fourth-order tensor. It was proved in [12] that the Burnett fourth-order tensor has a sign. For the special case of a simple laminate we prove that the homogenized fourth-order tensor may change sign. In the elliptic case we explain the difference between the homogenized and Burnett fourthorder tensors by a difference in the source term which features an additional corrector term. Finally, for the wave equation, the two fourth-order tensors coincide again, so dispersion is unambiguously defined, and only the source terms differ as in the elliptic case.
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