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We combine the ideas of atomistic/continuum energy blending and ghost force correction to obtain an energy-based atomistic/continuum coupling scheme which has, for a range of benchmark problems, the same convergence rates as optimal…
This paper addresses the problem of consistent energy-based coupling of atomistic and continuum models of materials, limited to zero-temperature statics of simple crystals. It has been widely recognized that the most practical coupled…
In this paper we construct energy based numerical methods free of ghost forces in three dimensional lattices arising in crystalline materials. The analysis hinges on establishing a connection of the coupled system to conforming finite…
We present a comprehensive error analysis of two prototypical atomistic-to-continuum coupling methods of blending type: the energy-based and the force-based quasicontinuum methods. Our results are valid in two and three dimensions, for…
We formulate and analyze an optimization-based Atomistic-to-Continuum (AtC) coupling method for problems with point defects. Near the defect core the method employs a potential-based atomistic model, which enables accurate simulation of the…
Very few works exist to date on development of a consistent energy-based coupling of atomistic and continuum models of materials in more than one dimension. The difficulty in constructing such a coupling consists in defining a coupled…
We formulate an atomistic-to-continuum coupling method based on blending atomistic and continuum forces. Our precise choice of blending mechanism is informed by theoretical predictions. We present a range of numerical experiments studying…
Inspired by the blending method developed by [P. Seleson, S. Beneddine, and S. Prudhome, \emph{A Force-Based Coupling Scheme for Peridynamics and Classical Elasticity}, (2013)] for the nonlocal-to-local coupling, we create a symmetric and…
We present a new optimization-based method for atomistic-to-continuum (AtC) coupling. The main idea is to cast the coupling of the atomistic and continuum models as a constrained optimization problem with virtual Dirichlet controls on the…
Atomistic-to-Continuum (AtC) coupling methods are a novel means of computing the properties of a discrete crystal structure, such as those containing defects, that combine the accuracy of an atomistic (fully discrete) model with the…
We present a comprehensive a priori error analysis of a practical energy based atomistic/continuum coupling method (Shapeev, arXiv:1010.0512) in two dimensions, for finite-range pair-potential interactions, in the presence of vacancy…
Concurrent multiscale methods play an important role in modeling and simulating materials with defects, aiming to achieve the balance between accuracy and efficiency. Atomistic-to-continuum (a/c) coupling methods, a typical class of…
We formulate an energy-based atomistic-to-continuum coupling method based on blending the quasicontinuum method for the simulation of crystal defects. We utilize theoretical results from Ortner and Van Koten (manuscript) to derive optimal…
We formulate a patch test consistent atomistic-to-continuum coupling (a/c) scheme that employs a second-order (potentially higher-order) finite element method in the material bulk. We prove a sharp error estimate in the energy-norm, which…
Atomistic/continuum coupling method is a class of multiscale computational method for the efficient simulation of crystalline defects. The recently developed blended ghost force correction (BGFC) method combines the efficiency of blending…
We present a new variant of the geometry reconstruction approach for the formulation of atomistic/continuum coupling methods (a/c methods). For multi-body nearest-neighbour interactions on the 2D triangular lattice, we show that patch test…
We present a coupled atomistic-continuum method for the modeling of defects and interface dynamics of crystalline materials. The method uses atomistic models such as molecular dynamics near defects and interfaces, and continuum models away…
The most essential concept in concurrent multiscale methods involving atomistic-continuum coupling is how to define the relation between atomistic and continuum regions. A well-known coupling method that has been frequently employed in…
This paper studies numerical methods for accurate treatment of the interface between the local and the nonlocal region in a QC approximation of atomistic materials. Only the energy-based methods are considered. Particularly, a…
A methodology for handling block-to-block coupling of nonconforming, multiblock summation-by-parts finite difference methods is proposed. The coupling is based on the construction of projection operators that move a finite difference grid…