Mid Sweden University

We study the homogenization of a hyperbolic-parabolic PDE with oscillations in one fast spatial scale. Moreover, the first order time derivative has a degenerate coefficient passing to infinity when ϵ→0. We obtain a local problem which is of elliptic type, while the homogenized problem is also in some sense an elliptic problem but with the limit for ϵ-1∂tuϵ as an undetermined extra source term in the right-hand side. The results are somewhat surprising and work remains to obtain a fully rigorous treatment. Hence the last section is devoted to a discussion of the reasonability of our conjecture including numerical experiments.