Effective boundary condition at a rough surface starting from a slip condition

AbstractWe consider the homogenization of the Navier–Stokes equation, set in a channel with a rough boundary, of small amplitude and wavelength ϵ. It was shown recently that, for any non-degenerate roughness pattern, and for any reasonable condition imposed at the rough boundary, the homogenized boundary condition in the limit ε=0 is always no-slip. We give in this paper error estimates for this homogenized no-slip condition, and provide a more accurate effective boundary condition, of Navier type. Our result extends those obtained in Basson and Gérard-Varet (2008) [6] and Gerard-Varet and Masmoudi (2010) [13], in which the special case of a Dirichlet condition at the rough boundary was examined