The integral equation method for a steady kinematic dynamo problem

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 196, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 102-125

  Xu, M ^a   Stefani, F ^a   Gerbeth, G ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ION BEAM PHYSICS AND MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acceleration of convergence; Integral equation; Magnetohydrodynamics

Indexed keywords

COSMOLOGY; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; INTERACTIVE DEVICES; INVERSE PROBLEMS; NUMERICAL METHODS;

ACCELERATION OF CONVERGENCE; CONVERGENCE RATES; COSMICS; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATION METHOD; DYNAMO THEORIES; GRID POINTS; INTEGRAL EQUATION METHODS; INTEGRAL EQUATION SOLVERS; KINEMATIC DYNAMO; NUMERICAL SOLUTION;

MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS;

EID: 1942475429     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2003.10.034     Document Type: Article

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