Analysis of a prototypical multiscale method coupling atomistic and continuum mechanics: the convex case
Résumé
In order to describe a solid which deforms smoothly in some region, but non smoothly in some other region, many multiscale methods have been recently proposed that aim at coupling an atomistic model (discrete mechanics) with a macroscopic model (continuum mechanics). We provide here a theoretical basis for such a coupling in a one-dimensional setting, in the case of convex energy.