Discrete-to-continuum linearization in atomistic dynamics

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Authors Manuel Friedrich, Manuel Seitz, Ulisse Stefanelli

Published in arXiv

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

PDEs in connection with mechanics of deformable solids (35Q74) Methods involving semicontinuity and convergence; relaxation (49J45) Variational methods for problems in mechanics (70G75) Molecular, statistical, and kinetic theories in solid mechanics (74A25)

Abstract: In the stationary case, atomistic interaction energies can be proved to $Gamma$-converge to classical elasticity models in the simultaneous atomistic-to-continuum and linearization limit [19],[40]. The aim of this note is that of extending the convergence analysis to the dynamic setting. Moving within the framework of [40], we prove that solutions of the equation of motion driven by atomistic deformation energies converge to the solutions of the momentum equation for the corresponding continuum energy of linearized elasticity. By recasting the evolution problems in their equivalent energy-dissipation-inertia-principle form, we directly argue at the variational level of evolutionary $Gamma$-convergence [32],[36]. This in particular ensures the pointwise in time convergence of the energies.

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