EM: Eddy Current Applications

Instructor

  • Iña­ki Çaldichoury

EM: Eddy Current Applications

Prerequisites

  • You should be fa­mil­iar with LS-DY­NA®.

Syllabus

This class overviews how to use the EM solver for Ed­dy cur­rent ap­pli­ca­tions. This course is rec­om­mend­ed for at­ten­dees who have in­dus­tri­al ap­pli­ca­tions that in­volve Ed­dy cur­rents, such as elec­tro­mag­net­ic met­al form­ing, in­duc­tive heat­ing, and rail­guns.

Content

  • Elec­tro­mag­net­ic met­al form­ing ap­pli­ca­tions
    • Key­word in­tro­duc­tion
    • Ed­dy cur­rents, mesh size, & timestep con­sid­er­a­tions
    • EM in­ter­ac­tion be­tween con­duc­tors: the BEM sys­tem
    • Cou­pling with the struc­tur­al and ther­mal solvers
    • How to op­ti­mize the analy­sis and take "short­cuts"
    • The ax­isym­met­ric solver
  • EM con­tact and ero­sion
    • The rail­gun ex­am­ple
    • How to turn parts of the EM con­duc­tors on/­off and han­dle ero­sion
  • In­duc­tive heat­ing. Prob­lem set up.
  • Mag­net­ic ma­te­ri­als