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  1. School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota, 330 Vincent Hall, 206 Church St. SE, 55455, Minneapolis, MN, USA

    Mitchell Luskin

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    Christoph Ortner

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Luskin, M., Ortner, C. (2015). Atomistic to Continuum Coupling. In: Engquist, B. (eds) Encyclopedia of Applied and Computational Mathematics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-70529-1_271

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