Consistent Energy-Based Atomistic/Continuum Coupling for Two-Body Potentials in One and Two Dimensions
Consistent Energy-Based Atomistic/Continuum Coupling for Two-Body Potentials in One and Two Dimensions
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 methods exhibit large errors on the atomistic/continuum interface (which are often attributed to spurious forces called "ghost …