Coupling Strategies Investigation of Hybrid Atomistic-Continuum Method Based on State Variable Coupling

Table 1

Configurations of functional regions in the overlap region.

Research	LN	Configuration details (region)	LW
O’Connell and Thompson 1995 [6]	3	npbf, ,	Equal
Nie et al. 2004 [7]	3	control (npbf, mass flow), ,	Equal
Zhou et al. 2014 [27]	3	control (npbf, mass flow, ), buffer,	Equal
Cosden and Lukes 2013 [18]	4	mass flow, , buffer,	Equal
Sun et al. 2010 [19]	4	depress (extending to the continuum region, npbf), , buffer,	Equal
Yen et al. 2007 [8]	5	depress (extending to the continuum region, npbf), buffer, , buffer,	Equal
Ko et al. 2010 [14]	5	control (npbf, mass flow), buffer, , buffer,	Equal