Computational Magnetics
Many electro-technical devices such as e.g. printed circuit boards, electrical drives and antenna systems can be simulated on the basis of electrical circuits. However, the increasing frequencies and the decreasing size force designers to account for wave propagation effects, eddy-current effects, ferromagnetic saturation and hysteresis. For wave propagation effects and eddy-current effects, the results of stand-alone field simulation can be represented by an order-reduced equivalent model, which is then inserted in the overall circuit model. The representation of field-dependent nonlinearities and hysteresis effects, however, is not straightforward.

2D Simulation of a Transformer
The coupled field and circuit simulation becomes troublesome when a large number of time steps is required. This occurs when e.g. simulating an electrical drive where the machine requires 10 periods of 50 Hz to reach nominal speed whereas the switching of the Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistors in the frequency converter switches at 20 kHz, necessitating a time steps in the order of a microsecond to be used in the simulation. Since the field model consists typically of a few million degrees of freedom, all those unknowns have to be solved in every time step. Fortunately, the relevant time constants in electrical-energy converter are in the range 50 Hz. Hence the field model does not have to be time-stepped at the same rate as the circuit model, in which fast switches are present. The use of adaptive multirate time-integration schemes can reduce the numerical complexity of the problem substantially.
Research Questions
- Efficiency of the time-integration for field devices in pulsed circuits (multirate, dynamic iteration)
- DAE-index of the coupled system
- Existence and Uniqueness of the solution
Cooperation
- Herbert De Gersem, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
- Markus Clemens, Bergische Universität Wuppertal
- Sascha Baumanns, Universität zu Köln
Former and ongoing projects
Publications
- 1999
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Schmidt, Sven; Appel, Matthew F.; Garnica, R. M.; Schindler, Ralph N.; Benter, Thorsten
Atmospheric Pressure Laser Ionization. An Analytical Technique for Highly Selective Detection of Ultralow Concentrations in the Gas Phase
Analytical Chemistry, 71 (17) :3721-3729
1999874.
Günther, M.; Feldmann, U.
CAD-based electric circuit modeling in industry I: mathematical structure and index of network equations
Surveys on Mathematics for Industry, 8 :97–129
1999
Herausgeber: Springer873.
Günther, M.; Feldmann, U.
CAD-based electric circuit modeling in industry II: impact of circuit configurations and parameters
Surveys on Mathematics for Industry, 8 :131–157
1999
Herausgeber: Springer872.
Caldwell, Tracy E.; Foster, Krishna L.; Benter, Thorsten; Langer, Sarka; Hemminger, John C.; Finlayson-Pitts, Barbara J.
Characterization of HOCl Using Atmospheric Pressure Ionization Mass Spectrometry
The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 103 (41) :8231-8238
1999871.
Caldwell, Tracy E.; Foster, Krishna L.; Benter, Thorsten; Langer, Sarka; Hemminger, John C.; Finlayson-Pitts, Barbara J.
Characterization of HOCl Using Atmospheric Pressure Ionization Mass Spectrometry
The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 103 (41) :8231-8238
1999870.
Caldwell, Tracy E.; Foster, Krishna L.; Benter, Thorsten; Langer, Sarka; Hemminger, John C.; Finlayson-Pitts, Barbara J.
Characterization of HOCl Using Atmospheric Pressure Ionization Mass Spectrometry
The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 103 (41) :8231-8238
1999869.
Jacob, Birgit; Winkin, Joseph; Zwart, Hans
Continuity of the spectral factorization on a vertical strip
Systems Control Lett., 37 (4) :183--192
1999868.
Osmann, Gerald; Bunker, Philip R.; Kraemer, Wolfgang P.; Jensen, Per
Coulomb explosion imaging and the CH\(_{2}\)\(^{+}\) molecule
Chemical Physics Letters, 309 (3-4) :299-306
1999867.
Osmann, Gerald; Bunker, Philip R.; Kraemer, Wolfgang P.; Jensen, Per
Coulomb explosion imaging and the CH\(_{2}\)\(^{+}\) molecule
Chemical Physics Letters, 309 (3-4) :299-306
1999866.
Osmann, Gerald; Bunker, Philip R.; Kraemer, Wolfgang P.; Jensen, Per
Coulomb explosion imaging and the CH2+ molecule
Chemical Physics Letters, 309 (3-4) :299-306
1999865.
Korn, Silke; Eisel, Christian; Tausch, Michael W.
Das leuchtende Labor
{CHEMKON}, 6 (3) :142--142
1999
Herausgeber: Wiley864.
Tyuterev, Vladimir G.; Tashkun, Sergey A.; Jensen, Per; Barbe, Alain; Cours, T.
Determination of the Effective Ground State Potential Energy Function of Ozone from High-Resolution Infrared Spectra
Journal of Molecular Spectroscopy, 198 (1) :57-76
1999863.
Tyuterev, Vladimir G.; Tashkun, Sergey A.; Jensen, Per; Barbe, Alain; Cours, T.
Determination of the Effective Ground State Potential Energy Function of Ozone from High-Resolution Infrared Spectra
Journal of Molecular Spectroscopy, 198 (1) :57-76
1999862.
Tyuterev, Vladimir G.; Tashkun, Sergey A.; Jensen, Per; Barbe, Alain; Cours, T.
Determination of the Effective Ground State Potential Energy Function of Ozone from High-Resolution Infrared Spectra
Journal of Molecular Spectroscopy, 198 (1) :57-76
1999861.
Ehrhardt, Matthias
Discrete transparent boundary conditions for general Schrödinger-type equations
VLSI Design, 9 (4) :325–338
1999
Herausgeber: Hindawi Publishing860.
Discrete transparent boundary conditions for general Schrödinger-type equations
Computer Physics Communications, 121 (4) :598--598
1999
Herausgeber: Hindawi859.
[german] Tausch, Michael W.; Grolmuss, A.
Ein low-cost Selbstbau-Spektroskop
Praxis der Naturwissenschaften (Chemie), 48 (7) :36
1999858.
Zwart, Hans; Jacob, Birgit
Equivalent conditions for stabilizability of infinite-dimensional systems with admissible control operators
SIAM J. Control Optim., 37 (5) :1419--1455
1999857.
Chudej, Kurt; Günther, Michael
Global state space approach for the efficient numerical solution of state-constrained trajectory optimization problems
Journal of optimization theory and applications, 103 :75--93
1999
Herausgeber: Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers856.
Kleffmann, Jörg; Becker, Karl Heinz; Lackhoff, Marion; Wiesen, Peter
Heterogeneous conversion of NO\(_{2}\) on carbonaceous surfaces
Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 1 (24) :5443-5450
1999
Herausgeber: The Royal Society of Chemistry855.
Kleffmann, Jörg; Becker, Karl Heinz; Lackhoff, Marion; Wiesen, Peter
Heterogeneous conversion of NO\(_{2}\) on carbonaceous surfaces
Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 1 (24) :5443-5450
1999
Herausgeber: The Royal Society of Chemistry854.
Kleffmann, Jörg; Becker, Karl Heinz; Lackhoff, Marion; Wiesen, Peter
Heterogeneous conversion of NO2 on carbonaceous surfaces
Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 1 (24) :5443-5450
1999
Herausgeber: The Royal Society of Chemistry853.
Setzer, Klaus-Dieter; Fink, Ewald H.; Ramsay, D. A.
High-Resolution Fourier-Transform Study of the b\(^{1}\)\(\Sigma\)\(^{+}\) → X\(^{3}\)\(\Sigma\)\(^{-}\) and a\(^{1}\)\(\Delta\) → X\(^{3}\)\(\Sigma\)\(^{-}\) Transitions of SO
Journal of Molecular Spectroscopy, 198 (1) :163-174
1999
Herausgeber: Academic Press852.
Setzer, Klaus-Dieter; Fink, Ewald H.; Ramsay, D. A.
High-Resolution Fourier-Transform Study of the b\(^{1}\)\(\Sigma\)\(^{+}\) → X\(^{3}\)\(\Sigma\)\(^{-}\) and a\(^{1}\)\(\Delta\) → X\(^{3}\)\(\Sigma\)\(^{-}\) Transitions of SO
Journal of Molecular Spectroscopy, 198 (1) :163-174
1999
Herausgeber: Academic Press851.
Setzer, Klaus-Dieter; Fink, Ewald H.; Ramsay, D. A.
High-Resolution Fourier-Transform Study of the b1Σ+ → X3Σ- and a1Δ → X3Σ- Transitions of SO
Journal of Molecular Spectroscopy, 198 (1) :163-174
1999
Herausgeber: Academic Press