A new look at the atomic level virial stress: On continuum-molecular system equivalence

Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 459, Issue 2037, 2003, Pages 2347-2392

  Zhou, Min ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Atomic stress; Cauchy stress; Equivalent continuum; Molecular dynamics; Pressure tensor; Virial stress

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATOM; ATOMIC PARTICLE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MECHANICAL STRESS; MOLECULAR SYSTEMATICS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTUM MECHANICS; QUANTUM YIELD; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

EID: 1542327302     PISSN: 13645021     EISSN: 14712946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspa.2003.1127     Document Type: Article

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