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Local and nonlocal energy-based coupling models

Analysis of PDEs 2021-07-13 v1

Abstract

In this paper we study two different ways of coupling a local operator with a nonlocal one in such a way that the resulting equation is related to an energy functional. In the first strategy the coupling is given via source terms in the equation and in the second one a flux condition in the local part appears. For both models we prove existence and uniqueness of a solution that is obtained via direct minimization of the related energy functional. In the second part of this paper we extend these ideas to deal with local/nonlocal elasticity models in which we couple classical local elasticity with nonlocal peridynamics.

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@article{arxiv.2107.05083,
  title  = {Local and nonlocal energy-based coupling models},
  author = {Gabriel Acosta and Francisco M. Bersetche and Julio D. Rossi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2107.05083},
  year   = {2021}
}
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