Electromagnetic and thermal modeling of composite materials using multilayer shell elements

Author

Ramdane, B. ; Trichet, D. ; Belkadi, M. ; Saidi, T. ; Fouladgar, J.

Author_Institution

Inst. de Rech. en Electrotech. et Electron. de Nantes Atlantique (IREENA), St. Nazaire, France

fYear

2010

fDate

9-12 May 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

1

Abstract

In this paper, a methodology based on shell elements is presented to model the electromagnetic and thermal phenomena of multilayered conductive composite materials. The standard 3-D Finite Element formulation is accomplished by a multilevel shell element representation. This leads to a reduced number of unknowns which improve the system convergence and consequently the computational time. The model developed will be validated with experimental results.

Keywords

Maxwell equations; composite materials; convergence of numerical methods; finite element analysis; heat transfer; induction heating; multilayers; 3D finite element formulation; Maxwell´s equations; composite plates; electromagnetic modeling; heat transfer; induction heating; multilayer shell elements; multilayered conductive composite materials; multilevel shell element representation; system convergence; thermal modeling; Anisotropic magnetoresistance; Assembly; Composite materials; Computational modeling; Electromagnetic modeling; Finite element methods; Heat transfer; Magnetics; Nonhomogeneous media; Thermal conductivity;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electromagnetic Field Computation (CEFC), 2010 14th Biennial IEEE Conference on

Conference_Location

Chicago, IL

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-7059-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CEFC.2010.5481805

Filename

5481805