Structural analysis of electrical circuits including magnetoquasistatic devices

Modeling electric circuits that contain magnetoquasistatic (MQS) devices leads to a coupled system of differential-algebraic equations (DAEs). In our case, the MQS device is described by the eddy current problem being already discretized in space (via edge-elements). This yields a DAE with a properly stated leading term, which has to be solved in the time domain. We are interested in structural properties of this system, which are important for numerical integration. Applying a standard projection technique, we are able to deduce topological conditions such that the tractability index of the coupled problem does not exceed two. Although index-2, we can conclude that the numerical difficulties for this problem are not severe due to a linear dependency on index-2 variables.