A unified framework and performance benchmark of fourteen multiscale atomistic/continuum coupling methods

Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2009, Pages

  Miller, Ronald E ^a   Tadmor, E B ^b  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b University of Minnesota   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMISTIC SIMULATIONS; COMPUTATIONAL COSTS; COMPUTATIONAL FRAMEWORK; COMPUTER CODES; CONTINUUM MODEL; COUPLING METHODS; DISLOCATION DIPOLE; DOMAIN METHODS; FACE-CENTERED CUBIC; FINITE ELEMENT; GENERIC FEATURES; MULTISCALE METHOD; MULTISCALES; TEST PROBLEM; UNIFIED FRAMEWORK;

CONTINUUM MECHANICS; COST REDUCTION; SIMULATORS;

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS;

EID: 70350638572     PISSN: 09650393     EISSN: 1361651X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0965-0393/17/5/053001     Document Type: Article

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