Some remarks on the current filament modeling of electromagnetic launchers

Author

Azzerboni, B. ; Cardelli, E. ; Raugi, M. ; Tellini, A.

Author_Institution

Dipartimento Elettronico Elettrico e Sistemistico, Catania Univ., Italy

Volume

29

Issue

1

fYear

1993

fDate

1/1/1993 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

643

Lastpage

648

Abstract

Current filament models have been widely used for the electromagnetic analysis of induction launchers and electromagnetic devices. Two functions of the eigenvalues of the filament parameter matrix were determined in order to evaluate the errors on the system solution induced by approximate calculations of the matrix parameters and the influence on the solution of a variation of the filament number of the discretization. These functions allow an estimate of the solution convergence and accuracy, avoiding the numerical or analytical integration of the differential equation set of the system. The launcher has been modeled by means of a coordinate system coherent with the moving armature, with the hypothesis of piecewise constant velocity of the armature, in order to have no time-dependent elements in the system matrix

Keywords

convergence of numerical methods; eigenvalues and eigenfunctions; electromagnetic launchers; matrix algebra; accuracy; armature; convergence; coordinate system; current filament modeling; eigenvalues; electromagnetic launchers; errors; filament parameter matrix; piecewise constant velocity; Coaxial components; Convergence of numerical methods; Eigenvalues and eigenfunctions; Electromagnetic analysis; Electromagnetic launching; Electromagnetic modeling; Equations; Induction generators; Magnetic flux; Stators;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Magnetics, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9464

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/20.195651

Filename

195651