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Mesh refinement methods

Methods for local refinement of FE meshes

Aim: uniform discretization error over the domain

  • p-refinement

    increase the order of interpolation polynomials
    Gavrilovic et al., IEEE Trans. Magn., 33 (1997) 4128.

  • r-refinement

    reduce element size by moving nodes
    number of unknowns remains constant
    Hertel et al., IEEE Trans. Magn. 34 (1998) 3922.

  • h-refinement

    additional degrees of freedom by inserting nodes and elements
    Hertel et al., IEEE Trans. Magn. 34 (1998) 3922.

  • h-refinement

    additional degrees of freedom by inserting nodes and elements
    Bagnérés-Viallix et al., IEEE Trans. Magn., 27 (1991) 3819
    Tako et al., J. Appl. Phys. 81 (1997) 4082
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