Re: [femm] How is 5 Tesla possible?

["Robert Macy" <macy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The MuMetal curve came in the Library section. Saturation appears to be
near 0.6T with the slope of the last two data points having a relative mu of
around 2.4, not 1 as true saturation would be. Note: I notice the curve is
not "well behaved" in that it appears to be slightly "lumpy", but is
monotonic.

Will add points to make certain that there is no extrapolation, only
interpolation to see what happens. However, postprocessing shows that the
effective mu is "locked" at 89,000 (the value listed in the materials
description) Somehow it appears that the program completely ignores
nonlinear aspects of the material and uses a linear value completely. ??
Or am I missing something?

Simple problem: I am trying to find the inductance per unit length for a
wire that is captured between two pieces of mumetal (slight air gap)

- Robert -


----- Original Message -----
From: Dave Squires
To: femm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Monday, January 13, 2003 9:27 AM
Subject: Re: [femm] How is 5 Tesla possible?


Check the BH curve of the core material.
Does it take into account saturation correctly?
What is the effective mu and what effective H
do you see in those areas?

I find that if you get the BH curve to be extended
into the saturation region correctly that you start
to see the flux leakage you would expect and the
flux density is better behaved.
Otherwise you can see ridiculous numbers like even
40 or 50 tesla or more. Try to put more points
that are more realistic on the BH curve out into
the high H regions. That should help some. Otherwise
FEMM will just extrapolate at the previous slope
of an unrealistic mu higher than what it should be.

DRS

Robert Macy wrote:
> Just downloaded and ran it. Got 8 to 9 Teslas in the tight areas.
>
> ??
>
> - Robert -
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Keith Gregory
> To: femm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Monday, January 13, 2003 6:11 AM
> Subject: Re: [femm] How is 5 Tesla possible?
>
>
> Robert,
>
> Harmonic problems (i.e. where frequency is not zero) are solved linearly
by
> FEMM, it doesn't include saturation so any value of B can be achieved.
Dave
> has recently produced a development version which can deal with non-linear
> problems, which is (I think) currently version 3.3alpha2.
>
> http://femm.berlios.de/femm33src.zip
> http://femm.berlios.de/femm33bin.exe
>
> Try that.
>
> Keith.
>
> At 23:22 12/01/2003 -0800, you wrote:
>
>
>>Apologize for the stupidity here, but...
>>
>>How is 5 Tesla possible? in mumetal that saturates at 0.6T?
>>
>>While doing a simple analysis using mumetal I found that at 100KHz the
>>material displayed the expected skin depth effects, but the |B| magnitude
>>fields were more than 5 teslas.
>>
>>How is this possible?
>>
>> - Robert -
>>
>>
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