Envelope-following method to compute steady-state solutions of electrical circuits

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Fundamental Theory and Applications

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 407-417

  Brambilla, Angelo ^a   Maffezzoni, Paolo ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Autonomous circuits; Envelope following (EF) method; Nonautonomous circuits; Steady state analysis

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

AUTONOMOUS CIRCUITS; MULTISHOOTING ALGORITHMS; SHOOTING ALGORITHMS; STEADY STATE ANALYSIS;

ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS;

EID: 0038005369     PISSN: 10577122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSI.2003.808897     Document Type: Article

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