The fallacy of edge elements

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 34, Issue 5 PART 1, 1998, Pages 3240-3243

  Mur, Gerrit ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Edge elements; Spurious modes; Spurious solutions

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000261166     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/20.717760     Document Type: Article

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