A benchmark problem of induction heating analysis

Issue title: Selected papers from the Heating by Electromagnetic Sources Conference 2016 (HES-2016)

Guest editors: Paolo Di Barba, Fabrizio Dughiero, Michele Forzan and Elisabetta Sieni

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Di Barba, P.^a | Mognaschi, M.E.^{a; *} | Lowther, D.A.^{a; b} | Dughiero, F.^c | Forzan, M.^c | Lupi, S.^c | Sieni, E.^c

Affiliations: [a] Department of Electrical, Computer and Biomedical Engineering, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy | [b] Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada | [c] Department of Industrial Engineering, Padova University, Padova, Italy

Correspondence: [*] Corresponding author: Maria Evelina Mognaschi, Department of Electrical, Computer and Biomedical Engineering, University of Pavia, Via Ferrata, 5, 27100 Pavia, Italy. Tel./Fax: +39 0382985200; E-mail:eve.mognaschi@unipv.it

Abstract: In the paper, a benchmark in the area of induction heating is presented in order to test methods and codes of field analysis in a comparative way. In particular, the transient thermal analysis of a magnetic steel cylindrical billet is considered: the coupled-field problem is characterized by a twofold non linearity, i.e. the dependence of magnetic permeability on both field strength and temperature.

Keywords: Induction heating, multiphysics problem, magnetic-steel billet, finite element analysis, benchmark problem

DOI: 10.3233/JAE-162249

Journal: International Journal of Applied Electromagnetics and Mechanics, vol. 53, no. S1, pp. S139-S149, 2017