5.3 Minimal coupling methods
Minimal coupling methods minimize explicit and concurrent communication
across scales via a variety of clever algorithmic or software
architecture tricks and represent a power repertoire of multiscale
methods. There are numerous techniques in this popular category, and we
chose not to delve into any of them in detail. A few of the methods in
these categories are listed along with their references in Table 5 under
Sequential multiscale methods and Adaptive resolution methods.
Sequential methods involve computing a property or a constitutive
relationship at one (typically the molecular) scale and employing
(either pre- or on-the-fly-) computed values in the other (typically the
continuum scale) [65,70,71].