Numerical simulations of the quantized vortices on a thin superconducting hollow sphere

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 201, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 511-530

  Du, Qiang ^a   Ju, Lili ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Finite volume methods; Ginzburg Landau model of superconductivity; Quantized vortices; Spherical centroidal Voronoi tessellations

Indexed keywords

SPHERES; VORTEX FLOW;

CENTROIDAL VORONOI TESSELLATION; FINITE-VOLUME METHOD; GINZBURG-LANDAU EQUATIONS; GINZBURG-LANDAU MODEL OF SUPERCONDUCTIVITY; GINZBURG-LANDAU MODELS; HOLLOW SPHERE; NUMERICAL ALGORITHMS; QUANTIZED VORTEX; SPHERICAL CENTROIDAL VORONOI TESSELLATION; VORTEX NUCLEATION;

FINITE VOLUME METHOD;

EID: 8744311511     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2004.06.009     Document Type: Article

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