Approximations of a Ginzburg-Landau model for superconducting hollow spheres based on spherical centroidal Voronoi tessellations

Mathematics of Computation

Volumn 74, Issue 251, 2005, Pages 1257-1280

  Du, Qiang ^a   Ju, Lili ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Convergence; Finite volume; Gauge invariance; Ginzburg Landau model of superconductivity; Spherical centroidal Voronoi tessellations

Indexed keywords

EID: 21644474689     PISSN: 00255718     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1090/S0025-5718-04-01719-3     Document Type: Article

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