A novel approach to deal with periodic boundary conditions for 3D eddy current field problems

Issue title: Proceedings from the 17th International Symposium on Applied Electromagnetics and Mechanics (ISEM 2015)

Guest editors: Fumio Kojima, Futoshi Kobayashi and Hiroyuki Nakamoto

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Yang, Jiaqiang | Yang, Shiyou^* | Huang, Jin

Affiliations: College of EE, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China

Correspondence: [*] Corresponding author: Shiyou Yang, College of EE, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, Zhejiang, China. Fax: +86 571 8795 1625; E-mail:eesyyang@zju.edu.cn

Abstract: To alleviate the requirement on excessive computational resources using numerical methods such as finite element analysis in solving large high frequency 3-D eddy current problems, a novel iterative methodology to deal with periodic boundary conditions is proposed. Its implementation in finite element method is also explained in details. Numerical results on the computations of 3-D eddy current fields of a cold crucible are used to demonstrate the robustness and feasibility as well as the advantages of the proposed methodology in solving practical 3-D eddy current field problems.

Keywords: Eddy current, finite element analysis, iterative procedure, numerical solution

DOI: 10.3233/JAE-162191

Journal: International Journal of Applied Electromagnetics and Mechanics, vol. 52, no. 1-2, pp. 435-442, 2016