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        <journal-title>St. Petersburg Polytechnic University Journal: Physics and Mathematics</journal-title>
        <trans-title-group xml:lang="ru">
          <trans-title>Научно-технические ведомости СПбГПУ. Физико-математические науки</trans-title>
        </trans-title-group>
      </journal-title-group>
      <issn pub-type="epub">2304-9782, 2618-8686, 2405-7223</issn>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">5</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.18721/JPM.19305</article-id>
      <title-group>
        <article-title>An analysis of the accuracy of analytical methods for calculating the DC electric fields in a limited area</article-title>
        <trans-title-group xml:lang="ru">
          <trans-title>Анализ точности аналитических методов расчета электрических полей постоянного тока в ограниченной области</trans-title>
        </trans-title-group>
      </title-group>
      <contrib-group>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Filippov</surname>
            <given-names>Vladimir</given-names>
          </name>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/>
          <email>wwfilippow@mail.ru</email>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">0000-0002-9685-9711</contrib-id>
          <name>
            <surname>Ershov</surname>
            <given-names>Aleksandr</given-names>
          </name>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2"/>
        </contrib>
      </contrib-group>
      <aff id="aff1">Lipetsk State Pedagogical University named after P. P. Semenov-Tyan-Shansky</aff>
      <aff id="aff2">Institute of Mathematics and Mechanics of Ural Branch of the RAS; Ural Federal University named after first president of Russia B. N. Yeltsin</aff>
      <pub-date publication-format="electronic" date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2026-09-30">
        <day>30</day>
        <month>09</month>
        <year>2026</year>
      </pub-date>
      <volume>19</volume>
      <issue>3</issue>
      <fpage>52</fpage>
      <lpage>62</lpage>
      <abstract xml:lang="en">
        <p>The presented study aimed to perform a qualitative analysis of two calculated solutions to Neumann boundary value problems for a bounded region using the partition method. The proposed author's solutions have simulated the distribution of electric potential in a rectangular conducting plate through which a direct current passes. A modification of the standard boundary conditions was considered; it involved taking into account the nonuniform current density on the contact surface. A comparison of the results of the application of theoretical computer models obtained on the basis of solutions to the Neumann problems and experimental measurements was carried out. A significant increase in the solution accuracy was shown to achieve near current contacts when using the modified boundary conditions relative to the standard ones. Moreover, the discrepancy between the results obtained by these two calculation methods in the middle region of the sample, turned out to be minimal.</p>
      </abstract>
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        <kwd>Laplace equation</kwd>
        <kwd>Neumann problem</kwd>
        <kwd>electric potential</kwd>
        <kwd>quasi-stationary electric current</kwd>
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