High performance multiscale simulation or crack propagation

Anciaux, G (Anciaux, Guillaume); Coulaud, O (Coulaud, Olivier); Roman, J (Roman, Jean)

2006 International Conference on Parallel Processing Workshops, Proceedings: 473-480 2006

We present a parallel implementation of a multiscale coupling method for material simulations. We describe the models used for our application and we focus on the design of our numerical simulation, which is based on a coupling involving a parallel code for molecular dynamics and a parallel finite element code for continuum mechanics. Data redistribution and atom migration issues are discussed, and an experimental validation on a real crack propagation problem is provided.

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