Temperature-Dependent Vector Hysteresis Model for Permanent Magnets

Irreversible thermal demagnetization effects can sometimes play a significant role in, for instance, rotating Preisach model (PM) machines. Modeling such phenomena requires field simulation methods such as finite element (FE) analysis in combination with a temperature-dependent vector hysteresis model. This paper explores the feasibility of applying a formalism for temperature-dependent structural hysteresis to magnetics. The net magnetization is expressed as a superposition of contributions from plays. By allowing the anhysteretic curve and the coercivity to depend on temperature, irreversible thermal effects resembling experiments emerge automatically without additional assumptions or adjustable parameters. Incorporating this temperature dependence has negligible impact on the computational efficiency or complexity of the model.