Title : 
Computational Homogenization for Laminated Ferromagnetic Cores in Magnetodynamics
         
        
            Author : 
Niyonzima, Innocent ; Sabariego, Ruth V. ; Dular, Patrick ; Henrotte, François ; Geuzaine, C.
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Univ. of Liege, Liege, Belgium
         
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
In this paper, we investigate the modeling of ferromagnetic multiscale materials. We propose a computational homogenization technique based on the heterogeneous multiscale method (HMM) that includes both eddy-current and hysteretic losses at the mesoscale. The HMM comprises: 1) a macroscale problem that captures the slow variations of the overall solution; 2) many mesoscale problems that allow to determine the constitutive law at the macroscale. As application example, a laminated iron core is considered.
         
        
            Keywords : 
eddy current losses; ferromagnetic materials; finite element analysis; laminates; magnetic hysteresis; HMM; computational homogenization; ferromagnetic multiscale materials; heterogeneous multiscale method; laminated ferromagnetic cores; laminated iron core; macroscale problem; magnetodynamics; mesoscale eddy current losses; mesoscale hysteretic losses; Computational homogenization; ferromagnetic cores; finite-element methods; hysteresis; magnetodynamics; multiscale methods;
         
        
        
            Journal_Title : 
Magnetics, IEEE Transactions on
         
        
        
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/TMAG.2012.2237546