The effective conductivity of random checkerboards

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 230, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1171-1181

  Helsing, Johan ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Checkerboard; Corner singularity; Effective conductivity; Fast solver; Integral equation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS;

CHECKERBOARD; CONDUCTIVITY RATIO; CORNER SINGULARITY; EFFECTIVE CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTROSTATIC EQUATION; FAST SOLVERS; ILL-CONDITIONING; MULTICOMPONENTS; PRECONDITIONERS; SINGULAR FIELDS;

INTEGRAL EQUATIONS;

EID: 78650568507     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: 10902716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2010.10.033     Document Type: Article

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