A two-scale model for the periodic homogenization of the wave equation

We present a new mathematical object designed to analyze the oscillations occurring on both microscopic and macroscopic scales in a wave equation with oscillating coefficients and data. Through a Bloch wave homogenization method, our study addresses typical problems of two-scale convergence in the interior of the domain, and sheds some light on the behavior near the boundary. A decoupled system of (systems of) transport equations is derived in each energy band, and the total energy field is approximated. We also recover previously known results in homogenization as a restricted part of our model.