Improved conditioning of finite element matrices using new high-order interpolatory bases

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 52, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 2675-2683

  Rieben, Robert N ^a   White, Daniel A ^b   Rodrigue, Garry H ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CAVITY RESONATORS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; INTERPOLATION; MATRIX ALGEBRA; POISSON EQUATION; POLYNOMIALS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; WAVE EQUATIONS; WAVEGUIDES;

ACOUSTIC WAVE EQUATION; COAXIAL WAVEGUIDE; COMPUTATIONAL ELECTROMAGNETICS; FINITE ELEMENT MATRICES; HIGH ORDER METHODS; MATRIX CONDITIONING; VECTOR HELMHOLTZ EQUATION;

MAXWELL EQUATIONS;

EID: 4344685159     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2004.834387     Document Type: Article

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