Mathematics – Numerical Analysis
Scientific paper
2009-07-22
SIAM J. Multiscale Modeling & Simulation, 8:782-802, 2010
Mathematics
Numerical Analysis
22 pages, 1 figure
Scientific paper
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 detailed analysis of the stability of the force-based quasicontinuum (QCF) method. The focus of the analysis is the question whether the QCF method is able to predict a critical load at which fracture occurs. Numerical experiments show that the spectrum of a linearized QCF operator is identical to the spectrum of a linearized energy-based quasi-nonlocal quasicontinuum operator (QNL), which we know from our previous analyses to be positive below the critical load. However, the QCF operator is non-normal and it turns out that it is not generally positive definite, even when all of its eigenvalues are positive. Using a combination of rigorous analysis and numerical experiments, we investigate in detail for which choices of "function spaces" the QCF operator is stable, uniformly in the size of the atomistic system. Force-based multi-physics coupling methods are popular techniques to circumvent the difficulties faced in formulating consistent energy-based coupling pproaches. Even though the QCF method is possibly the simplest coupling method of this kind, we anticipate that many of our observations apply more generally.
Dobson Matthew
Luskin Mitchell
Ortner Christoph
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