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Adaptive atomistic/continuum (a/c) coupling method is an important method for the simulation of material and atomistic systems with defects to achieve the balance of accuracy and efficiency. Residual based a posteriori error estimator is…
We present a posteriori error estimates for a recently developed atomistic/continuum coupling method, the Consistent Energy-Based QC Coupling method. The error estimate of the deformation gradient combines a residual estimate and an a…
Hybrid quantum/molecular mechanics (QM/MM) models play a pivotal role in molecular simulations. These models provide a balance between accuracy, surpassing pure MM models, and computational efficiency, offering advantages over pure QM…
Hybrid quantum/molecular mechanics models (QM/MM methods) are widely used in material and molecular simulations when MM models do not provide sufficient accuracy but pure QM models are computationally prohibitive. Adaptive QM/MM coupling…
The efficient and accurate simulation of material systems with defects using atomistic- to-continuum (a/c) coupling methods is a topic of considerable interest in the field of computational materials science. To achieve the desired balance…
We consider a 1D periodic atomistic model, for which we formulate and analyze an adaptive variant of a quasicontinuum method. We establish a posteriori error estimates for the energy norm and for the energy, based on a posteriori residual…
QM (quantum mechenics) and MM (molecular mechenics) coupling methods are widely used in simulations of crystalline defects. In this paper, we construct a residual based a posteriori error indicator for QM/MM coupling approximations. We…
We consider the a posteriori error estimation for an atomistic-to-continuum cou- pling scheme for a generic one-dimensional many-body next-nearest-neighbour interaction model in 1D. We derive and rigorously prove the efficiency of the…
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…
Atomistic/continuum coupling methods aim to achieve optimal balance between accuracy and efficiency. Adaptivity is the key for the efficient implementation of such methods. In this paper, we carry out a rigorous a posteriori analysis of the…
We propose and analyze a goal-oriented a posteriori error estimator for the atomistic-continuum modeling error in the quasicontinuum method. Based on this error estimator, we develop an algorithm which adaptively determines the atomistic…
The atomistic-to-continuum (a/c) coupling methods, also known as the quasicontinuum (QC) methods, are a important class of concurrent multisacle methods for modeling and simulating materials with defects. The a/c methods aim to balance the…
We introduce quantitative and robust tools to control the numerical accuracy in simulations performed using the Multiscale Finite Element Method (MsFEM). First, we propose a guaranteed and fully computable a posteriori error estimate for…
The quasicontinuum (QC) method, originally proposed by Tadmor, Ortiz and Phillips in 1996, is a computational technique that can efficiently handle regular atomistic lattices by combining continuum and atomistic approaches. In the present…
Recovery type a posteriori error estimators are popular, particularly in the engineering community, for their computationally inexpensive, easy to implement, and generally asymptotically exactness. Unlike the residual type error estimators,…
Within this article, we develop a residual type a posteriori error estimator for a time discrete quasi-static phase-field fracture model. Particular emphasize is given to the robustness of the error estimator for the variational inequality…
Lattice networks with dissipative interactions can be used to describe the mechanics of discrete meso-structures of materials such as 3D-printed structures and foams. This contribution deals with the crack initiation and propagation in such…
Mixed atomistic and continuum methods offer the possibility of carrying out simulations of material properties at both larger length scales and longer times than direct atomistic calculations. The quasi-continuum method links atomistic and…
The numerical approximation of convection-dominated problems continues to remain subject of strong interest. Families of stabilization techniques for finite element methods were developed in the past. Adaptive techniques based on a…
A sharp stability analysis of atomistic-to-continuum coupling methods is essential for evaluating their capabilities for predicting the formation and motion of lattice defects. We formulate a simple one-dimensional model problem and give a…