Automatic generation of cuts on large-sized meshes for the T-Ω geometric eddy-current formulation

Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering

Volumn 198, Issue 47-48, 2009, Pages 3765-3781

  Dłotko, Paweł ^a   Specogna, Ruben ^b   Trevisan, Francesco ^b  

^a JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UDINE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Automatic cut generation; Belted tree; Computational homology; Eddy currents; Homology generators; Scalar potential in multiply connected regions

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC CUT GENERATION; BELTED TREE; COMPUTATIONAL HOMOLOGY; HOMOLOGY GENERATORS; SCALAR POTENTIAL IN MULTIPLY-CONNECTED REGIONS;

COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY;

EDDY CURRENTS;

EID: 70349511033     PISSN: 00457825     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cma.2009.08.007     Document Type: Article

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