A finite element method for the thermoelectrical modelling of electrodes

Communications in Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 581-593

  Bermúdez, Alfredo ^a   Bullón, Javier ^b   Pena, Francisco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

^b Departamento de Documentación y Proyectos   (Spain)

Author keywords

Electric furnaces; Electrodes; Electromagnetics; Finite elements; Numerical simulation

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY OF SOLIDS; ELECTRODES; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; ITERATIVE METHODS; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY OF SOLIDS; THERMOELECTRIC EQUIPMENT;

REDUCTION FURNACES; THERMOELECTRICAL MODELING;

ELECTRIC FURNACES;

EID: 0032094319     PISSN: 10698299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-0887(199806)14:6<581::AID-CNM175>3.0.CO;2-S     Document Type: Article

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