Investigation of local current flow in polycrystalline, anisotropic superconductors using finite element simulation

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 88, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 5283-5288

  Zeimetz, B ^a   Baranowski, R P ^a   Evetts, J E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; BICRYSTALS; CRITICAL CURRENTS; ELECTRIC CURRENT DISTRIBUTION MEASUREMENT; GEOMETRY; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; LEAD; SOLVENTS; SUPERCONDUCTING MATERIALS;

ANISOTROPIC SUPERCONDUCTORS; BASIC BUILDING BLOCK; CURRENT CONCENTRATION; CURRENT VOLTAGE CURVE; ELECTROMAGNETIC PARAMETERS; FINITE ELEMENT PROGRAMS; FINITE ELEMENT SIMULATIONS; POLYCRYSTALLINE CONDUCTORS;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 0000700990     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1314332     Document Type: Article

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