Describing sources

Introduction

For everything concerning the describing of the sources:

• for the magnetic aspects: see chapter Steady State AC Magnetic application: principles

• for the thermal aspects: see chapter Thermal applications: principles

Specificities connected with coupling

For a Steady State AC Magnetic / Transient Thermal coupling the power dissipated by Joule effect, resulting from the Steady State AC Magnetic solving process, is introduced as a heating source term in the Transient Thermal solving process.

From the software point of view, this transfer is carried out by means of conducting regions (of solid conductor type), as shown in the table below.

+ possible heating source
	Heat computed by Joule effect in electromagnetic solving process

Attention: see particular condition if the surface impedance formulation in 3D is used (§ Remarks on the surface impedance formulation (3D))