Analysis of critical-state problems in type-II superconductivity

IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 3866-3873

  Prigozhin, Leonid ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

Critical current; High temperature superconductors; Magnetization; Numerical analysis; Variational methods

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL CURRENTS; HIGH TEMPERATURE SUPERCONDUCTORS; MAGNETIC HYSTERESIS; MAGNETIZATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; VARIATIONAL TECHNIQUES;

BEAN KIM CRITICAL STATE MODES; CRITICAL STATE PROBLEMS; HELE SHAW PROBLEMS;

SUPERCONDUCTIVITY;

EID: 0031358611     PISSN: 10518223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/77.659440     Document Type: Article

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