Estimating accuracy of electrostatic finite element models

Communications in Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 313-321

  Shaul, Diana N A ^a   Sumner, Timothy J ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Electrostatic; Error analysis; Finite element method; LISA

Indexed keywords

CAPACITANCE; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; ELECTROSTATICS; ERROR ANALYSIS; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; POLYNOMIALS; STIFFNESS; TORQUE;

CONVERGED CAPACITANCE; CONVERGENCE RANGE; FINITE ELEMENT MODELS; POLYNOMIAL LEVELS;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

ELECTROSTATICS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 1942434796     PISSN: 10698299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cnm.674     Document Type: Article

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