Transient 3D eddy currents using modified magnetic vector potentials and magnetic scalar potentials
- 1 January 1988
- journal article
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in IEEE Transactions on Magnetics
- Vol. 24 (1) , 86-89
- https://doi.org/10.1109/20.43862
Abstract
A package named VECTOR for solving 3-D eddy current problems is presented. The package is a developmental version of the commercial package CARMEN and in the same way solves the vector diffusion equation, involving a modified vector potential, within conductors and the scalar Poisson equation, using a magnetic scalar potential, in non-eddy-current regions. It has been shown that this set of equations yields a unique solution for both the magnetic vector potential (and hence the currents) and the fields (which are derived from the magnetic potentials by differentiation). This package has recently been extended to solve transient problems, using simple time-stepping techniques. Some results using the package for problems with analytic solutions are given.Keywords
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