A Survey of Numerical Methods for Transient Eddy Current Problems

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 1993, Pages 1711-1716

  Tsukerman, I A ^a   Konrad, A ^a   Bedrosian, G ^b   Chari, M V K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGEBRA; NUMERICAL METHODS; TRANSIENTS;

TIME-STEPPING SCHEMES; TRANSIENT EDDY CURRENTS;

EDDY CURRENTS;

EID: 0027561135     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: 19410069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/20.250735     Document Type: Article

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