Conditional Convergence in 2-Dimensional Dislocation Dynamics

For 2-dimensional dislocation dynamics (DD) simulations under periodic boundary conditions (PBC) in both directions, the summation of the periodic image stress fields is found to be conditionally convergent. For example, different stress fields are obtained depending on whether the summation in the x-direction is performed before or after the summation in the y-direction. This problem arises because the stress field of a 1D periodic array of dislocations does not necessarily go to zero far away from the dislocation array. The spurious stress fields caused by conditional convergence in the 2D sum are shown to consist of only a linear term and a constant term with no higher order terms. Absolute convergence, and hence self-consistency, is restored by subtracting the spurious stress fields, whose expressions have been derived in both isotropic and anisotropic elasticity. ‡ Corresponding Author: [email protected] Model. Simul. Mater. Sci. Eng., in press (2013) Conditional Convergence in 2-Dimensional Dislocation Dynamics 2