Efficient simulation of coupled circuit-field problems: Generalized falk method

IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 1209-1219

  Vu Quoc, Loc ^a   Zhai, Yuhu ^b   Ngo, Khai D T ^a  

^a University of Florida   (United States)

^b Duke University   (United States)

Author keywords

Converters; Coordinate transformation; Coupled circuit field problems; Electrothermal simulation; Insulated gate bipolar transistor (IGBT) device; Power electronics; Reorthogonalization; Stable and passive one dimensional (1 D) equivalent thermal circuit

Indexed keywords

CAPACITANCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTANCE; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; EQUIVALENT CIRCUITS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; INSULATED GATE BIPOLAR TRANSISTORS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

COORDINATE TRANSFORMATION; COUPLED CIRCUIT FIELD PROBLEMS; ELECTROTHERMAL SIMULATION; REORTHOGONALIZATION; STABLE AND PASSIVE ONE DIMENSIONAL EQUIVALENT THERMAL CIRCUITS;

COUPLED CIRCUITS;

EID: 3843114447     PISSN: 02780070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCAD.2004.832640     Document Type: Article

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