A Shell Element For Computing 3D Eddy Currents – Application to Transformers –

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 1995, Pages 1360-1363

  Guérin, Christophe ^a   Tanneau, Gérard ^a   Meunier, Gérard ^b   Labie, Patrice ^b   Ngnegueu, Triomphant ^c   Sacotte, Michel ^d  

^a EDF R AND D   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c Jeumont Schneider Transformateurs   (France)

^d France Transfo 84 Voie Romaine BP 140 57 211 Maizières les Metz ^*  (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; CONDUCTIVE MATERIALS; ELECTRIC GROUNDING; ELECTRIC TRANSFORMERS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; MAGNETIC LEAKAGE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SKIN EFFECT; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

NONCONDUCTING LINE GAPS; SHELL ELEMENT; THIN CONDUCTING SHEETS;

EDDY CURRENTS;

EID: 0029304990     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: 19410069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/20.376279     Document Type: Article

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