Steady State AC Magnetic: solved equations (introduction)

Introduction

The equations used for the solving are:

• Maxwell's equations (for a magnetic system)
• the constitutive equations of the matter

The computation conditions for a Steady state AC Magnetic application are the following:

• the state variables are time dependent: d/dt ≠ 0 (steady state sinusoidal: sinusoidal time dependence of the current sources)

• the computation concerns only the B, H and E fields (the D field is not computed).

  The equations of the electric fields E and D and of the magnetic fields B, H cannot be decoupled.

Equations and conditions

In the previously defined conditions of computation, the equations are summarized as follows:

			E: electric field strength (in V/m) B: magnetic flux density (in T) H: magnetic field strength (in A/m) J: current density (in A/m2)
			σ : conductivity (in S) μ : permeability (in H/m)

The main equation for magnetic materials, can be put in form B(H) or H(B) as presented below.

⇒

μr : relative permeability μ0 : vacuum permeability

⇒

νr : reluctivity νr =1/μr ν0 : vacuum reluctivity ν0 =1/μ0

Models

To solve these equations, two models are used:

• the vector model, which uses: the magnetic vector potential (written )

• the scalar model, which uses: magnetic scalar potentials (written ϕ_tot or ϕ_red)

Model and 2D or 3D application

• the vector model for the 2D applications
• the scalar model for the 3D applications