Author(s)

R. Mertens, U. Pahner and K. Hameyer

Abstract

Numerical simulation of electromagnetic devices using the finite element method is nowadays more than just a magnetostatic calculation. Induced currents, saturation and end-effects have to be taken into account. With the ever increasing computation power of state of the art computers, the transient method using a one-step time-stepping scheme is in common use in finite element analysis. Effects of higher harmonics caused by the non-linear behaviour of materials, motion, but also by non-sinusoidal excitation and faults, can be considered. Applying non-sinusoidal voltages and currents at the finite element model must be possible in an easy and comprehensible way. This is obtained by a function based description of th

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