Dynamical micromagnetics by the finite element method

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 3842-3852

  Yang, Bo ^a   Fredkin, Donald R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamics; Finite element method; General purpose dynamical micromagnetic code (GDM); Landau Lifschitz; Micromagnetics

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTER WORKSTATIONS; DEMAGNETIZATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GALERKIN METHODS; INTERPOLATION; MAGNETIZATION; ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SUPERCOMPUTERS;

DAMPED GILBERT EQUATION; GENERAL PURPOSE DYNAMICAL MICROMAGNETIC (GDM) CODES; INCOMPLETE CHOLESKY CONJUGATE GRADIENT PRECONDITIONERS; POSSION'S EQUATION;

MAGNETISM;

EID: 0032208624     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/20.728293     Document Type: Article

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