Application of integral equation and hybrid techniques to the parallel computation of electromagnetic fields in a distributed memory environment

Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society Journal

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 87-98

  Jakobus, Ulrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COMPUTER WORKSTATIONS; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS;

DISTRIBUTED MEMORY ENVIRONMENT;

DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT;

EID: 0032118858     PISSN: 10544887     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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