Fast methods for quantitative eddy-current tomography of conductive materials

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 42, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 2017-2028

  Tamburrino, Antonello ^a,b   Rubinacci, Guglielmo ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CASSINO AND SOUTHERN LAZIO   (Italy)

^b Michigan State University   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

Computational electromagnetics; Eddy currents; Edge elements; Finite elements; Ill posed problems; Nondestructive evaluation; Noniterative methods

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE; DATA REDUCTION; EDDY CURRENTS; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; FREQUENCIES; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MEASUREMENT THEORY; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; TOMOGRAPHY;

COMPUTATIONAL ELECTROMAGNETICS; EDGE ELEMENTS; FINITE ELEMENTS; ILL-POSED PROBLEMS; NONDESTRUCTIVE EVALUATIONS; NONITERATIVE METHODS;

CONDUCTIVE MATERIALS;

EID: 33746928786     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2006.877542     Document Type: Article

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