%0 Journal Article %A Orive, R. %A Zuazua Iriondo, Enrique %A Pazoto, A. %T Asymptotic expansion for damped wave equations with periodic coefficients %D 2001 %@ 0218-2025 %U https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/57079 %X We consider a linear dissipative wave equation in IRN with periodic coefficients. By means of Bloch wave decomposition, we obtain an expansion of solutions as t ! 1 and conclude that, in a first approximation, the solutions behave as the homogenized heat kernel. %~