Improved Gauss-Seidel projection method for micromagnetics simulations

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 39, Issue 3 II, 2003, Pages 1766-1770

  García Cervera, Carlos J ^a   Weinan, E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Landau Lifshitz equations; Micromagnetics; Projection method

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DAMPING; MAGNETISM; NANOTECHNOLOGY; THERMAL EFFECTS;

DAMPING PARAMETER; GAUSS SEIDEL PROJECTION METHOD; LANDAU LIFSHITZ EQUATIONS; MICROMAGNETICS;

FERROMAGNETIC MATERIALS;

EID: 0038047523     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2003.810610     Document Type: Article

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