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Some remarks on free energy and coarse-graining

  • INRIA Rocquencourt
  • Université Paris-Est

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Abstract

We present recent results on coarse-graining techniques for thermodynamic quantities (canonical averages) and dynamical quantities (averages of path functionals over solutions of overdamped Langevin equations). The question is how to obtain reduced models to compute such quantities, in the specific case when the functional to be averaged only depends on a few degrees of freedom. We mainly review, numerically illustrate and extend results from (Blanc et al. Journal of Nonlinear Science 20(2):241–275, 2010; Legoll and Lelièvre Nonlinearity 23(9):2131–2163, 2010.), concerning the computation of the stress-strain relation for one-dimensional chains of atoms, and the construction of an effective dynamics for a scalar coarse-grained variable when the complete system evolves according to the overdamped Langevin equation.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationNumerical Analysis of Multiscale Computations - Proceedings of a Winter Workshop at the Banff International Research Station 2009
EditorsOlof Runborg, Bjorn Engquist, Yen-Hsi R. Tsai
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages279-329
Number of pages51
ISBN (Print)9783642219429
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 2012
EventWorkshop on Numerical Analysis and Multiscale Computations, 2009 - Banff, Canada
Duration: 6 Dec 200911 Dec 2009

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computational Science and Engineering
Volume82
ISSN (Print)1439-7358

Conference

ConferenceWorkshop on Numerical Analysis and Multiscale Computations, 2009
Country/TerritoryCanada
CityBanff
Period6/12/0911/12/09

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