Parallel computation of large-scale electromagnetic field distributions

Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society Journal

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 179-187

  Excell, Peter S ^a   Tinniswood, Adam D ^a,b   Haigh Hutchinson, Kathleen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; EFFICIENCY; OPTIMIZATION; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; TISSUE;

SPATIAL DISTRIBUTIONS;

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS;

EID: 0032118499     PISSN: 10544887     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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