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20162026
most citedThe Method of Reflections, Homogenization and Screening for Poisson and Stokes Equations in Perforated Domains

35 citations · 53 across the 14 of their papers we have counts for

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21 papers

math.AP2026

Homogenization of the Stokes equations with slender bodies

Pascal Hadré, Richard M. Höfer

In this paper we study the convergence of solutions of the Stokes equations in a domain perforated by slender bodies placed on a fixed periodic grid of size as the size of the…

math.AP2026

Reactive Flow around Spherically Evolving Particles in Critical and Supercritical Dilute Regimes

Michael Eden, Richard M. Höfer

We study a coupled Stokes-reaction-diffusion-advection system in a three dimensional domain perforated by a large number of evolving spherical inclusions with radii of order $\vare…

math.AP2026

Brinkman's term for the steady-state Navier-Stokes equations with prescribed flux rate or pressure drop in perforated pipes

Richard M. Höfer, Amina Mecherbet, Gianmarco Sperone

The steady motion of a viscous incompressible fluid in a distorted pipe, containing several small particles of diameter $\eps^3$ and mutual distance $\eps$, is modeled through the…

math.AP2025

Propagation of chaos for first-order mean-field systems with non-attractive moderately singular interaction

Richard M. Höfer, Richard Schubert

We consider particle systems that evolve by inertialess binary interaction through general non-attractive kernels of singularity with . We prove a quantitative me…

math.AP2024★ 1 cited

Qualitative/quantitative homogenization of some non-Newtonian flows in perforated domains

Richard M. Höfer, Yong Lu, Florian Oschmann

In this paper, we consider the homogenization of stationary and evolutionary incompressible viscous non-Newtonian flows of Carreau-Yasuda type in domains perforated with a large nu…

math.AP2023

Hydrodynamic limit of multiscale viscoelastic models for rigid particle suspensions

Mitia Duerinckx, Lucas Ertzbischoff, Alexandre Girodroux-Lavigne +1

We study the multiscale viscoelastic Doi model for suspensions of Brownian rigid rod-like particles, as well as its generalization by Saintillan and Shelley for self-propelled part…

math.AP2023

Sedimentation of particles with very small inertia I: Convergence to the transport-Stokes equation

Richard M. Höfer, Richard Schubert

We consider the sedimentation of spherical particles with identical radii in a Stokes flow in . The particles satisfy a no-slip boundary condition and are subj…

math.AP2023★ 3 cited

Hindered Settling of Well-Separated Particle Suspensions

Matthieu Hillairet, Richard M. Höfer

We consider identical inertialess rigid spherical particles in a Stokes flow in a domain . We study the average sedimentation velocity of the particles wh…

math.AP2022

Homogenization of the Navier-Stokes equations in perforated domains in the inviscid limit

Richard M. Höfer

We study the solution to the Navier-Stokes equations in perforated by small particles centered at with no-slip boundary co…

math.AP2022

A fast point charge interacting with the screened Vlasov-Poisson system

Richard M. Höfer, Raphael Winter

We consider the long-time behavior of a fast, charged particle interacting with an initially spatially homogeneous background plasma. The background is modeled by the screened Vlas…

math.AP2022★ 6 cited

Derivation of the viscoelastic stress in Stokes flows induced by non-spherical Brownian rigid particles through homogenization

Richard M. Höfer, Marta Leocata, Amina Mecherbet

We consider a microscopic model of identical axis-symmetric rigid Brownian particles suspended in a Stokes flow. We rigorously derive in the homogenization limit of many small…

math.AP2021★ 6 cited

Motion of several slender rigid filaments in a Stokes flow

Richard M. Höfer, Christophe Prange, Franck Sueur

We investigate the dynamics of several slender rigid bodies moving in a flow driven by the three-dimensional steady Stokes system in presence of a smooth background flow. More prec…

math.AP2020

The Influence of Einstein's Effective Viscosity on Sedimentation at Very Small Particle Volume Fraction

Richard M. Höfer, Richard Schubert

We investigate the sedimentation of identical inertialess spherical particles in a Stokes fluid in the limit of many small particles. It is known that the presence of the particles…

math.AP2020

Darcy's law as low Mach and homogenization limit of a compressible fluid in perforated domains

Richard M. Höfer, Karina Kowalczyk, Sebastian Schwarzacher

We consider the homogenization limit of the compressible barotropic Navier-Stokes equations in a three-dimensional domain perforated by periodically distributed identical particles…

math.AP2020★ 2 cited

Convergence rates and fluctuations for the Stokes-Brinkman equations as homogenization limit in perforated domains

Richard M. Höfer, Jonas Jansen

We study the homogenization of the Dirichlet problem for the Stokes equations in perforated by spherical particles. We assume the positions and velocities of the…

math.AP2020

Convergence of the pressure in the homogenization of the Stokes equations in randomly perforated domains

Arianna Giunti, Richard M. Höfer

We consider the homogenization to the Brinkman equations for the incompressible Stokes equations in a bounded domain which is perforated by a random collection of small spherical h…

math.AP2020

Mild assumptions for the derivation of Einstein's effective viscosity formula

David Gérard-Varet, Richard M. Höfer

We provide a rigorous derivation of Einstein's formula for the effective viscosity of dilute suspensions of rigid balls, , set in a volume of size . So far, most ju…

math.AP2019

Convergence of the method of reflections for particle suspensions in Stokes flows

Richard M. Höfer

We study the convergence of the method of reflections for the Stokes equations in domains perforated by countably many spherical particles with boundary conditions typical for the…

math.AP2018

Homogenization for the Poisson equation in randomly perforated domains under minimal assumptions on the size of the holes

Arianna Giunti, Richard Höfer, Juan J. L. Velázquez

This paper deals with the homogenization of the Poisson equation in a bounded domain of , , which is perforated by a random number of small spherical holes with…

math.AP2018

The inertialess limit of particle sedimentation modeled by the Vlasov-Stokes equations

Richard M. Höfer

We study the Vlasov-Stokes equations which macroscopically model the sedimentation of a cloud of particles in a fluid, where particle inertia are taken into account but fluid inert…

math.AP2016★ 35 cited

The Method of Reflections, Homogenization and Screening for Poisson and Stokes Equations in Perforated Domains

Richard Höfer, Juan J. L. Velázquez

We study the convergence of the Method of Reflections for the Dirichlet problem of the Poisson and the Stokes equations in perforated domains which consist in the exterior of balls…