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Two finite-element approaches to cope with thin sheets in the electro-quasistatic formulation are presented. Both rely on the well-known strategy to reduce the sheet volume to a surface. In the first approach, polynomials in the lateral direction are used to allow for a field variation across the sheet. Using the second method, the presence of the thin sheet is modeled by a modification of the local discretization. In contrast to the first approach, here, no additional degrees of freedom are introduced. The different methods are compared to a conventional solution based on simple test examples.
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Trommler, J., Koch, S., Weiland, T. (2012). Two Finite-Element Thin-Sheet Approaches in the Electro-Quasistatic Formulation. In: Michielsen, B., Poirier, JR. (eds) Scientific Computing in Electrical Engineering SCEE 2010. Mathematics in Industry(), vol 16. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-22453-9_13
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