The p-Laplacian operator in oscillating thin domains

Abstract

In this paper we study the asymptotic behavior of the solutions of a class of nonlinear elliptic problems posed in a 2-dimensional domain that degenerates into a line segment (a thin domain) when a positive parameter $\epsilon$ goes to zero. We also allow high oscillating behavior on the upper boundary of the thin domain as $\epsilon \to 0$. Combining methods from classic homogenization theory for reticulated structures and monotone operators we obtain the homogenized equation proving convergence of the solutions and establishing a corrector function which guarantees strong convergence in $W^{1,p}$ for $1<p<+\infty$.