L. Krahenbuhl et al., SURFACE IMPEDANCES, BIEM AND FEM COUPLED WITH 1D NON-LINEAR SOLUTIONSTO SOLVE 3D HIGH-FREQUENCY EDDY-CURRENT PROBLEMS, IEEE transactions on magnetics, 33(2), 1997, pp. 1167-1172
The BIEM coupled with surface impedances gives good results at a low c
ost for 3D high frequency eddy-currents calculation with linear materi
als. In this paper, we review the possible extensions to non linear ma
terials. We propose (and test in 3D) an original method, based on 1D c
omputations of the complex surface impedance. Results are applied to i
nduction hardening processes. This paper presents essentially validati
ons of the method of non linear surface impedances; a future publicati
on will be devoted to the thermal validations.