Finite difference heterogeneous multi-scale method for homogenization problems

In this paper, we propose a numerical method, the finite difference heterogeneous multi-scale method (FD-HMM), for solving multi-scale parabolic problems. Based on the framework introduced in [Commun. Math. Sci. 1 (1) 87], the numerical method relies on the use of two different schemes for the original equation, at different grid level which allows to give numerical results at a much lower cost than solving the original equations. We describe the strategy for constructing such a method, discuss generalization for cases with time dependency, random correlated coefficients, non-conservative form and implementation issues. Finally, the new method is illustrated with several test examples. (C) 2003 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.