A mathematical framework of the bridging scale method

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 65, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1688-1713

  Tang, Shaoqiang ^a,b   Hou, Thomas Y ^b   Liu, Wing Kam ^c  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c Northwestern University   (United States)

Author keywords

Bridging scale method; Coarse fine decomposition; Molecular dynamics coupled with finite elements; Multiscale computation

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; INTERPOLATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS;

BRIDGING SCALE METHOD; COARSE-FINE DECOMPOSITION; MULTISCALE COMPUTATION;

NUMERICAL METHODS;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; INTERPOLATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NUMERICAL METHODS;

EID: 33244470908     PISSN: 00295981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nme.1514     Document Type: Article

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