Efficient Flexible Boundary Conditions for Long Dislocations

DOI10.4208/CICP.OA-2021-0157zbMATH Open1496.65233arXiv2105.08798MaRDI QIDQ5042006FDOQ5042006

Authors: Max Hodapp 

Publication date: 18 October 2022

Published in: Communications in Computational Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We present a novel efficient implementation of the flexible boundary condition (FBC) method, initially proposed by Sinclair et al., for large single-periodic problems. Efficiency is primarily achieved by constructing a hierarchical matrix ($mathscrH$-matrix) representation of the periodic Green matrix, reducing the complexity for updating the boundary conditions of the atomistic problem from quadratic to almost linear in the number of pad atoms. In addition, our implementation is supported by various other tools from numerical analysis, such as a residual-based transformation of the boundary conditions to accelerate the convergence. We assess the method for a comprehensive set of examples, relevant for predicting mechanical properties, such as yield strength or ductility, including dislocation bow-out, dislocation-precipitate interaction, and dislocation cross-slip. The main result of our analysis is that the FBC method is robust, easy-to-use, and up to two orders of magnitude more efficient than the current state-of-the-art method for this class of problems, the periodic array of dislocations (PAD) method, in terms of the required number of per-atom force computations when both methods give similar accuracy. This opens new prospects for large-scale atomistic simulations - without having to worry about spurious image effects that plague classical boundary conditions.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.08798

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zbMATH Keywords

hierarchical matricesdislocationslattice Green functionsatomistic/continuum couplingflexible boundary conditionslocal/global coupling

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Multigrid methods; domain decomposition for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N55) Fundamental solutions, Green's function methods, etc. for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N80) Statics (70C20)

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