A variety of finite difference methods to the thermistor with a new modified electrical conductivity

Applied Mathematics and Computation

Volumn 106, Issue 2-3, 1999, Pages 205-213

  Kutluay, S ^a   Bahadir, A R ^a   Ozdes A ^a  

^a INONU UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Finite difference; Modified electrical conductivity; Thermistor

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY OF SOLIDS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; FUNCTIONS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

MODIFIED STEP FUNCTION ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; NONLINEAR FUNCTIONS;

THERMISTORS;

EID: 0033360341     PISSN: 00963003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0096-3003(98)10123-6     Document Type: Article

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