ANIMATED ANALYTICAL AND PARTIALLY DISCRETIZED SOLUTIONS TO THE ONE-DIMENSIONAL MAGNETIC DIFFUSION EQUATION

Authors
LEVIN PL LANGEVIN RP TORREY DA
Citation
Pl. Levin et al., ANIMATED ANALYTICAL AND PARTIALLY DISCRETIZED SOLUTIONS TO THE ONE-DIMENSIONAL MAGNETIC DIFFUSION EQUATION, IEEE transactions on education, 36(3), 1993, pp. 310-315
Citations number
12
Categorie Soggetti
Engineering, Eletrical & Electronic","Education, Scientific Disciplines
Journal title
IEEE transactions on education → ACNP
ISSN journal
00189359
Volume
36
Issue
3
Year of publication
1993
Pages
310 - 315
Database
ISI
SICI code
0018-9359(1993)36:3<310:AAAPDS>2.0.ZU;2-R
Abstract
This paper discusses a new educational computer program which takes ad vantage of the graphical and computational capabilities of personal co mputers in order to help students visualize the dynamic phenomenon of magnetic diffusion. The program is capable of animating analytical and numerical steady-state solutions to a one-dimensional magnetic diffus ion equation. The analytical solution is straightforwardly found from phasor analysis, while the numerical solution is calculated via the pa rtial discretization method.