Reiterated homogenization of degenerate nonlinear elliptic equations

The authors study homogenization of some nonlinear partial differential equations of the form _ div (a (hx, h2 x, Duh)) = f , where a is periodic in the rst two arguments and monotone in the third. In particular the case where a satis es degenerated structure conditions is studied. It is proved that uh converges weakly in W0 1,1 (Ω) to the unique solution of a limit problem as h → ∞ . Moreover, explicit expressions for the limit problem are obtained.Validerad; 2002; 20070107 (ysko)