A fast boundary cloud method for exterior 2D electrostatic analysis

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 239-260

  Shrivastava, Vaishali ^a   Aluru, N R ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

Boundary cloud method (BCM); Fast algorithms; Meshless methods; Moving least squares; Singular value decomposition (SVD)

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTORS; GREEN'S FUNCTION; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; ITERATIVE METHODS; LINEAR EQUATIONS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; VECTORS;

BOUNDARY CLOUD METHOD (BCM);

ELECTROSTATICS;

ELECTROSTATICS;

EID: 0037435662     PISSN: 00295981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nme.562     Document Type: Article

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