steudner@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
Dear all,If I understand what's going on, you have a magnet that has a big pole area but is very short. In this case, the flux should be much higher near the edges of the magnet. The lengths of the paths along which flux travel are much shorter out near the edges, increasing the flux density.I want to solve the problem with a metal disk rotating
in the air gap of a magnet. In a first step I want to
show the flux-density in the neighbourhood of a permanent
magnet. I added to the properties of a block the properties
of a material from the library connecting SmCo. The results
for a 25x13x3 permanent magnetized in the direction of 90
degrees to the 25x13 plane show in the 25x3 cross-section
high density only near the 3 mm sides. I think that this
is not real and connected with the model of permanent
magnets used in the program and showed in figure 31 of the
users manual. Is that right? What can I do, to obtain better
results for permanent magnets?Regards
Reinhold Steudner
Anyhow, think about it in terms of Amperes's loop law: The integral of H around a flux path equals the amp-turns enclosed by the path. Since all the flux paths, either near the edges of the magnet or near the center of the magnet, enclose more or less the same number of amp-turns, the H must be much higher on the shorter flux paths near the edges of the magnet to satisfy the loop law.
Dave.
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