Design of Coils - FE Methods????

[Anonymous]

Does anyone know if coil design can be modelled using finite element methods. How is it usally done.
Is there any known published results that I can look at for interest.
thanks
sean

 

[Anonymous]

One can design induction coils using finite-element methods. There exists commercial software that does this, aimed mainly at motors and electromagnets. If you are doing this yourself, you might look at the Boundary Element Method, which allows the dimensionality of the problem to be reduced by one dimension. There is likely to be open-source software available to do this, but it will take some knowledge and time to use it.

 

[Anonymous]

I have the relatively inexpensive Infolytica Gemini program which I use mainly for multi coil systems. It shows 2D flux plots and flux densities. There is some very nice software out there, but way too expensive for the likes of me.
Eric.