Title :
A pyramidal element to link hexahedral, prismatic and tetrahedral edge finite elements
Author :
Coulomb, Jean-Louis ; Zgainski, François-Xavier ; Maréchal, Yves
Author_Institution :
Lab. d´´Electrotech. de Grenoble, ENSIEG, St. Martin d´´Heres, France
fDate :
3/1/1997 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
Starting from a nodal pyramidal finite element, the paper presents first and second order edge pyramidal elements. These new elements can be very useful to link meshes of different type, that is to say hexahedral, tetrahedral and prismatic edge elements used in magnetic field computation
Keywords :
finite element analysis; magnetic fields; finite element meshes; first order edge pyramidal elements; hexahedral edge finite elements; magnetic field computation; magnetostatics; nodal pyramidal finite element; prismatic edge finite elements; second order edge pyramidal elements; tetrahedral edge finite elements; Displays; Finite element methods; Gaussian processes; Interpolation; Jacobian matrices; Magnetic fields; Mesh generation; Shape; Vectors;
Journal_Title :
Magnetics, IEEE Transactions on
