Analysis of a quasicontinuum method in one dimension
ESAIM: Modélisation mathématique et analyse numérique, Tome 42 (2008) no. 1, pp. 57-91.

The quasicontinuum method is a coarse-graining technique for reducing the complexity of atomistic simulations in a static and quasistatic setting. In this paper we aim to give a detailed a priori and a posteriori error analysis for a quasicontinuum method in one dimension. We consider atomistic models with Lennard-Jones type long-range interactions and a QC formulation which incorporates several important aspects of practical QC methods. First, we prove the existence, the local uniqueness and the stability with respect to a discrete W1,∞-norm of elastic and fractured atomistic solutions. We use a fixed point argument to prove the existence of a quasicontinuum approximation which satisfies a quasi-optimal a priori error bound. We then reverse the role of exact and approximate solution and prove that, if a computed quasicontinuum solution is stable in a sense that we make precise and has a sufficiently small residual, there exists a ‘nearby’ exact solution which it approximates, and we give an a posteriori error bound. We stress that, despite the fact that we use linearization techniques in the analysis, our results apply to genuinely nonlinear situations.

DOI : 10.1051/m2an:2007057
Classification : 70C20, 70-08, 65N15
Mots-clés : atomistic material models, quasicontinuum method, error analysis, stability 
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Ortner, Christoph; Süli, Endre. Analysis of a quasicontinuum method in one dimension. ESAIM: Modélisation mathématique et analyse numérique, Tome 42 (2008) no. 1, pp. 57-91. doi : 10.1051/m2an:2007057. https://www.numdam.org/articles/10.1051/m2an:2007057/

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