A Survey on the numerics and computations for the Landau-Lifshitz equation of micromagnetism

Archives of Computational Methods in Engineering

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 277-309

  Cimrák, Ivan ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

MAGNETIZATION PATTERNS; MATHEMATICAL PROPERTIES; MICROMAGNETISM; NONCONVEX; NONLOCAL CHARACTERS; NUMERICAL APPROXIMATIONS; PHYSICAL QUANTITIES; RECENT DEVELOPMENTS; STRONG SOLUTIONS; STRONGLY NONLINEAR; WEAK SOLUTIONS;

NONLINEAR EQUATIONS;

EID: 56949098941     PISSN: 11343060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11831-008-9021-2     Document Type: Article

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