Current accumulation for a self magnetic field calculation in a finite-element gun code

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 41, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 2355-2361

  Nelson, Eric M ^a   Petillo, John J ^b  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Electron trajectory code; Finite element methods; Gun code; Magnetostatics; Particle beam optics

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ERROR ANALYSIS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FUNCTION EVALUATION; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETOSTATICS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; NUMERICAL METHODS; PROBLEM SOLVING; VECTORS;

BEAM OPTICS CODE; ELECTRON TRAJECTORY CODE; GUN CODE; PARTICLE BEAM OPTICS;

CODES (SYMBOLS);

EID: 25144487597     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2005.852181     Document Type: Article

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