Li, Xingjie Helen2012-11-052012-11-052012-08https://hdl.handle.net/11299/137994University of Minnesota Ph.D. dissertation. August 2012. Major: Mathematics. Advisor: Mitchell Luskin. 1 computer file (PDF); viii, 98 pages.en-USAtomistic-to-Continuum CouplingConsistencyQuasicontinuumStabilityThe development and analysis of atomistic-to-continuum coupling methods.Thesis or Dissertation