The boundary element modelling of the human body exposed to the ELF electromagnetic fields

Engineering Analysis with Boundary Elements

Volumn 26, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 871-875

  Poljak, Dragan ^a   Rashed, Youssef F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SPLIT   (Croatia)

^b WESSEX INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Boundary element method; Current distribution; Extremely low frequency electromagnetic fields; Integro differential equation; The human body; Thick wire model

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; GALERKIN METHODS; INTEGRODIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; WIRE;

CYLINDRICAL MODELS;

BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 0036888214     PISSN: 09557997     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0955-7997(02)00055-3     Document Type: Article

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