TY - JOUR T1 - On the Effect of Ghost Force in the Quasicontinuum Method: Dynamic Problems in One Dimension JO - Communications in Computational Physics VL - 3 SP - 647 EP - 676 PY - 2014 DA - 2014/03 SN - 15 DO - http://doi.org/10.4208/cicp.250213.270813a UR - https://global-sci.org/intro/article_detail/cicp/7109.html KW - AB -

Numerical error caused by "ghost forces" in a quasicontinuum method is studied in the context of dynamic problems. The error in the discrete W1,∞ norm is analyzed for the time scale $\mathcal{O}$($ε$) and the time scale $\mathcal{O}$(1) with ε being the lattice spacing.