Conservation properties of the bridging domain method for coupled molecular/continuum dynamics

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 76, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 278-294

  Xu, Mei ^a   Belytschko, Ted ^b  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Northwestern University   (United States)

Author keywords

Bridging domain; Diagonalized constraint; Lagrange multiplier; Spurious reflection

Indexed keywords

COERCIVE FORCE; DOMAIN DECOMPOSITION METHODS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE REFLECTION; FREQUENCY MULTIPLYING CIRCUITS; MAGNETIC PROPERTIES; REFLECTION;

BRIDGING DOMAIN; CONSERVATION PROPERTIES; CONSISTENT CONSTRAINTS; COUPLED SIMULATIONS; DIAGONALIZED CONSTRAINT; DOMAIN DECOMPOSITIONS; LINEAR MOMENTUMS; SPURIOUS REFLECTION;

LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS;

EID: 57949108255     PISSN: 00295981     EISSN: 10970207     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nme.2323     Document Type: Article

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