A pyramidal element to link hexahedral, prismatic and tetrahedral edge finite elements

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 33, Issue 2 PART 2, 1997, Pages 1362-1365

  Coulomb, Jean Louis ^a   Zgainski, François Xavier ^a   Maréchal, Yves ^a  

^a LABORATOIRE D ELECTROTECHNIQUE DE GRENOBLE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERPOLATION; MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY; VECTORS;

HEXAHEDRAL EDGE FINITE ELEMENTS; PRISMATIC EDGE FINITE ELEMENTS; PYRAMIDAL ELEMENTS; TETRAHEDRAL EDGE FINITE ELEMENTS;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 0031099066     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/20.582509     Document Type: Article

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