Ghost forces and spurious effects in atomic-to-continuum coupling methods by the arlequin approach

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 83, Issue 8-9, 2010, Pages 1081-1113

  Chamoin, Ludovic ^a   Prudhomme, Serge ^b   Dhia, H Ben ^c   Oden, Tinsley ^b  

^a Grande Voie des Vignes   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c ECOLE CENTRALE PARIS   (France)

Author keywords

Arlequin framework; Corrective method; Dead forces; Global energy minimization

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATE SOLUTION; ARLEQUIN; CONTINUUM MODEL; CORRECTIVE METHOD; COUPLING FORMULATION; COUPLING METHODS; DEAD FORCES; DISCRETIZATIONS; GLOBAL ENERGY; HOMOGENIZED MODEL; LONG-RANGE INTERACTION POTENTIAL; PARTICLE MODEL; POST PROCESSING; REPRESENTATIVE VOLUME ELEMENTS; SPURIOUS EFFECTS;

CONTINUUM MECHANICS; OPTIMIZATION;

DIELECTRIC LOSSES;

EID: 77956129469     PISSN: 00295981     EISSN: 10970207     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nme.2879     Document Type: Article

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