On the variational calculus and corona fields: Charge drift, duality and degeneracy

Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics

Volumn 32, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 1243-1251

  Jones, J E ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CHARGE; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FLOW OF FLUIDS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PROBLEM SOLVING; VARIATIONAL TECHNIQUES;

CHARGE-DRIFT EQUATIONS; EULERIAN CONTINUITY EQUATION;

ELECTRIC CORONA;

EID: 0033532478     PISSN: 00223727     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0022-3727/32/11/310     Document Type: Article

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