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Goal-oriented Atomistic-Continuum Adaptivity for the Quasicontinuum Approximation

Numerical Analysis 2007-08-02 v1 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We give a goal-oriented a posteriori error estimator for the atomistic-continuum modeling error in the quasicontinuum method, and we use this estimator to design an adaptive algorithm to compute a quantity of interest to a given tolerance by using a nearly minimal number of atomistic degrees of freedom. We present computational results that demonstrate the effectiveness of our algorithm for a periodic array of dislocations described by a Frenkel-Kontorova type model.

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@article{arxiv.0708.0025,
  title  = {Goal-oriented Atomistic-Continuum Adaptivity for the Quasicontinuum Approximation},
  author = {Marcel Arndt and Mitchell Luskin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0708.0025},
  year   = {2007}
}

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9 pages, 2 figures

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