The design of electromagnetic devices submitted to high mechanical stress is a growing issue and requires consequently appropriate modeling tools. We propose in this paper to implement a multiscale model for magneto-elastic behavior into a finite-element code. The 2-D magneto-elastic constitutive law is derived from a multiscale model based on a local energetic approach. The method is applied to study the effect of stress on the magnetic behavior of a switched reluctance motor. This work provides a finite-element tool for the modeling of the effect of multiaxial stress on electrotechnical devices.Index Terms-Effect of stress, electrical machines, finite-element method, magneto-elasticity, multiscale modeling.
This paper displays some simulation results of dynamic responses of the high-Tc superconductors (HTSC)-Permanent magnet (PM) levitation systems taking into account the influence of the flux creep phenomena and of the thermal effect. We focus on the establishment of a three-dimensional numerical code to solve the nonlinear and coupled equations. A new control volume method is proposed for the resolution of the partial derivative equations of the treaded physical phenomena. The influence is comprehensively displayed by comparing the predictions of dynamic responses of such systems in which the thermal effect in the superconductor is and is not taken into account. The electromagnetic and thermal coupling is ensured by an alternate algorithm. The thermal effect highlights the influence of the temperature on the value of the magnetic levitation force, levitation stabilization time and shows that the vibration center of levitated body had drifted downward.
This paper deals with the numerical simulation of eddy current distributions in nonstationary geometries with sliding interfaces. We study a system composed of two solid parts: a fixed one (stator) and a moving one (rotor) which slides in contact with the former. We also consider a two-dimensional mathematical model based on the transverse electric formulation of the eddy current problem whose approximation is performed via the mortar element method combined with the standard linear finite element discretization in space and an implicit first order Euler scheme in time. Numerical results underline the influence of the rotor movement on the current distribution and give an estimate of the power losses with respect to the rotor angular speed.
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