Computational simulation of flux trapping and vortex pinning in Type-II superconductors

Applied Mathematics and Computation

Volumn 106, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 31-49

  Coskun, Erhan ^a  

^a KARADENIZ TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY; THIN FILMS; VORTEX FLOW;

FLUX TRAPPING; VORTEX PINNING;

SUPERCONDUCTING FILMS;

EID: 0033355635     PISSN: 00963003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0096-3003(98)10089-9     Document Type: Article

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