• DocumentCode
    1177458
  • Title

    Modeling Thin Conductive Sheets Using Shell Elements in Magnetoquasistatic Field Simulations

  • Author

    Koch, Stephan ; Trommler, Jens ; De Gersem, Herbert ; Weiland, Thomas

  • Author_Institution
    Inst. fur Theor. Elektromagn. Felder (TEMF), Tech. Univ. Darmstadt, Darmstadt
  • Volume
    45
  • Issue
    3
  • fYear
    2009
  • fDate
    3/1/2009 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    1292
  • Lastpage
    1295
  • Abstract
    The eddy-current losses in a superconductive dipole magnet comprising a metallic beam tube are calculated. A standard 3-D Finite Element (FE) formulation is accomplished by a shell element representation of the thin beam tube. Thanks to the resulting reduced model size and the improved aspect ratio of the tetrahedra used for discretization, the computational time, in particular for transient nonlinear simulations, is reduced significantly.
  • Keywords
    beams (structures); eddy current losses; finite element analysis; sheet materials; shells (structures); superconducting magnets; discretization; eddy-current losses; magnetoquasistatic field simulations; metallic beam tube; shell elements; standard 3-D finite element formulation; superconductive dipole magnet; thin beam tube; thin conductive sheets; transient nonlinear simulations; Eddy-current losses; finite-element method; shell elements; superconductive magnets;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Magnetics, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9464
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TMAG.2009.2012601
  • Filename
    4787446