Global and Domain-Decomposed Mixed Methods for the Solution of Maxwell's Equations with Application to Magnetotellurics

Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 407-437

  Santos, Juan E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE LA PLATA   (Argentina)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Domain decomposition; Magnetotellurics; Maxwell's equations

Indexed keywords

EID: 0007452648     PISSN: 0749159X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2426(199807)14:4<407::AID-NUM1>3.0.CO;2-O     Document Type: Article

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