J. C. Maxwell’s research while affiliated with King's College London and other places

... Understanding the physical laws governing physical systems has always been a subject of study for many world-renowned scientists throughout history. A significant contribution was given by James Clerk Maxwell [1], who elaborated on the relations between the mechanical motion of a medium and the observed phenomena of magnetism and electricity. The existence of a unified framework for the study of physical systems in different energetic domains started to become popular in the last century thanks to the work of Gabriel Kron, who showed that the modeling and simulation of mechanical and hydraulic systems can be effectively performed using analogous electrical systems based on tensor analysis [2]. ...

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The Power-Oriented Graphs Modeling Technique: From the Fundamental Principles to the Systematic, Step-By-Step Modeling of Complex Physical Systems