Coupled mechanical-electrostatic FE-BE analysis with FMM acceleration: Application to a shunt capacitive MEMS switch

COMPEL - The International Journal for Computation and Mathematics in Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 876-884

  Sabariego, R V ^a   Gyselinck, J ^a   Dular, P ^a   De Coster, J ^b   Henrotte, F ^b   Hameyer, K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^b Katholieke Universiteit Leuven   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Boundary elements methods; Finite element analysis

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); ELECTROSTATICS; LAPLACE TRANSFORMS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

FAST MULTIPOLE METHOD (FMM); ISOTROPIC DIELECTRICS; PARALLEL-PLATE ACTUATORS; SURFACE CHARGE DENSITY;

MICROELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES;

EID: 9144251116     PISSN: 03321649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/03321640410553300     Document Type: Article

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