Title : 
A straightforward way to reduce a locally nonhomogeneous field problem to a homogeneous one
         
        
            Author : 
Cehan-Racovita, Mircea
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Inst. for Electr. Eng. - Adv. Res., Bucharest, Romania
         
        
        
        
        
            fDate : 
3/1/2002 12:00:00 AM
         
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
The aim is to remove performance limitations of boundary-element method with regard to the field problems with locally nonhomogeneous media, where μ=μ(x, y, z). The means consist in proving a field solution of novel structure, able to comply with quite realistic numerical requirements. One succeeds in decomposing the nonlaplacian potential into two factors one depending on the boundary data, the other one on the local permeability, only. In this way, the specified problem is merely reduced to one of a laplacian field. The algorithm (Dirichlet and Neumann) is developed and the numerical results are compared with those obtained by a classical method
         
        
            Keywords : 
boundary-elements methods; inhomogeneous media; magnetic fields; Dirichlet algorithm; Laplace potential; Neumann algorithm; boundary element method; homogeneous medium; local permeability; magnetic field; nonhomogeneous medium; numerical analysis; Differential equations; Finite element methods; Helium; Laplace equations; Magnetic domains; Magnetic fields; Magnetic separation; Magnetostatics; Nonhomogeneous media; Permeability;
         
        
        
            Journal_Title : 
Magnetics, IEEE Transactions on