Analysis of an actuator with eddy currents and iron saturation: Comparison between a FEM and a BEM-FEM coupling approach

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 35, Issue 3 PART 1, 1999, Pages 1793-1796

  Fetzer, Joachim ^a   Kurz, Stefan ^a   Lehner, Günther ^a   Rucker, Wolfgang M ^a   Henninger, Peter ^b   Röckelein, Rudolf ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^b SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Boundary element methods; Eddy currents; Finite element methods; Moving bodies

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD; CURRENT DENSITY; EDDY CURRENTS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; IRON; MAGNETIZATION; MAXWELL EQUATIONS;

CONSTITUTIVE EQUATIONS; IRON SATURATION; MOVING BODIES;

ACTUATORS;

EID: 0033121680     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/20.767379     Document Type: Article

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