Magneto-mechanical coupling: solving principle

Magneto mechanical coupling

The magneto-mechanical coupling takes into account the magnetic and kinematic aspects of a problem. The magnetic aspect is characterized by Maxwell's equations and the kinematic one by the fundamental equations of dynamics in translating or rotating motion.

Equations in electro magnetism

The equations used for the computation are repeated below:

• Maxwell's equations in electromagnetism:
• other equations:

Fundamental dynamics equation in translating motion

The dynamics of a body in translating motion is expressed by the fundamental equation:

$m\frac{{\partial }^{2}y}{\partial t^2}=\mathrm{\Sigma }{\overrightarrow{F}}_{ext} \Rightarrow m\ddot{y}=F_{em}-F_r$

where:

• m is the mass of the moving body
• y is the instantaneous body position and ÿ is its linear acceleration
• F_r is the resistant mechanical force acting on the body
• F_em is the electromagnetic force acting on the body

Fundamental dynamics equation in rotating motion

The dynamics equation for the rotating motion of a body is:

$J\frac{{\partial }^2\theta }{\partial t^2}=\mathrm{\Sigma }{\overrightarrow{\mathrm{\Gamma }}}_{ext} \Rightarrow J\ddot{\theta }={\mathrm{\Gamma }}_{em}-{\mathrm{\Gamma }}_r$

where:

• J is the moment of inertia of the rotating body
• θ is the body's angular position and is its angular acceleration
• Γ_r is the resistant mechanical torque acting on the body
• Γ_em is the electromagnetic torque acting on the body

Solving principle

The magneto-mechanical coupling is a weak coupling between the electromagnetic and kinematic aspects of the problem. To solve this type of problem, we apply a four-stage procedure, as outlined below. At each time step, the electromagnetic aspect is analyzed first and then the kinematic one.

The algorithm of this method can be summarized as follows:

Additional notes

The electromagnetic force and the magnetic torque acting on the moving part are computed by the virtual work method.

The mechanical force or torque acting on the moving part is an input data of the problem, entered by the user.