Scalable parallel micromagnetic solvers for magnetic nanostructures

Computational Materials Science

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 366-383

  Scholz, Werner ^a   Fidler, Josef ^a   Schrefl, Thomas ^a   Suess, Dieter ^a   Dittrich, Rok ^a   Forster, Hermann ^a   Tsiantos, Vassilios ^a  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Finite element method; Micromagnetics; Nanostructures; Parallel; Scalable

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MAGNETIZATION; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NUCLEATION;

MICROMAGNETICS;

MAGNETISM;

EID: 0141922735     PISSN: 09270256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0927-0256(03)00119-8     Document Type: Conference Paper

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