The advantages of triangular and tetrahedral edge elements for electromagnetic modeling with the finite-element method

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 45, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 1431-1437

  Wu, Jo Yu ^a   Lee, Robert ^a  

^a Ohio State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Finite element methods

Indexed keywords

CAVITY RESONATORS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; ERROR ANALYSIS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MAGNETIC PERMEABILITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; PERMITTIVITY; VECTORS;

PHASE CANCELLATION; VECTOR HELMHOLTZ EQUATION;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 0031232778     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/8.623133     Document Type: Article

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