Applied Electromagnetics Using QuickField™ and MATLAB® is intended
as an introductory level textbook for teaching computer-based electricity,
magnetism and multiphysics. The text is easily accessible to advanced
undergraduates and beginning graduate students in physics and engineering.
Many exercises and demonstrations may be implemented using QuickField and
MATLAB in a traditional introductory level physics course. This second audience
will benefit from the visualization of electric and magnetic field distributions
and force calculations without a working knowledge of the finite element
method or potential theory.
QuickField is a window-based, Finite Element Method (FEM) software package that supports Electrostatics, DC and AC conduction, Magnetostatics, AC and Transient Magnetics, Steady State and Transient Heat Transfer and Stress Analysis problem types. Models are created in a ‘point-and-click’ CAD environment, where material properties and boundary conditions are assigned. Automatic mesh generation and post processing are fast and user-friendly. Solutions to most problems in the textbook can be displayed in a matter of seconds after the model has been created. The textbook is packaged with a companion CD with a student version of the software capable of solving all the problems in the text. Additional examples are included with the software. The student version of QuickField may also be downloaded from the Tera Analysis website at www.quickfield.com. The user’s guide and demonstration videos are also available on the website. Application-based examples in the text and on the website include the calculation of currents in biological tissue under electrical stimulation, superconducting magnetic shielding, magnetic levitation, electromagnetic nondestructive testing as well as the motion of charged particles in electric fields. Multiphysics applications include coupled stress, electromagnetic and thermal analysis. Students taking a course in electromagnetic theory usually concentrate mostly on analytical techniques, e.g., solving differential equations and boundary value problems. Unfortunately, students often come away with a limited understanding of how electromagnetic fields behave. Computer modeling serves to bridge this understanding gap in that it enables visualization of electric and magnetic fields and electrical currents and therefore builds an intuitive and qualitative understanding that is not readily gained in manipulating complex analytical expressions. Analytical methods developed in this text concentrate on separation of variables, conformal mapping, and Laplace transform techniques. Numerical finite difference and Monte Carlo methods are also introduced with examples in MATLAB. Comparison of numerical solutions with theory helps establish confidence in numerical methods and builds experience in establishing the reliability of computational results and the applicability of theoretical approximations. The book includes extensive problem sets that facilitate computer-based learning of electromagnetics and the application of QuickField and MATLAB illustrating some of the basic concepts in electromagnetic theory such as Gauss’ Law and Ampere’s Law. The exercises are designed to allow user selection of different parameters, dimensions, material properties, and initial conditions. Tables of physical properties and characteristic dimensions of engineering materials and biological materials in living cells and the human body are included in Appendices 4 and 5 for the reader’s convenience. The reader is encouraged to conform, modify, and extend these exercises according to his or her own interests. Chapter 1 introduces mathematical preliminaries and MATLAB concurrently with additional MATLAB examples in Appendix 1. The vector analysis component of Chapter 1 provides simple MATLAB examples calculating vector dot and cross products. The divergence, curl, gradient, and Laplacian are also calculated in different coordinate systems. The Laplace Transform introduced in Chapter 1 is used in chapters on transient magnetics, thermal analysis, stress analysis, and electrical circuit modeling. Analytical and computational methods of solving Laplace and Poisson’s equations are developed in Chapter 2. Readers wishing to jump directly into QuickField may begin with Chapter 3 “A Walk Through QuickField.” This chapter will get the reader started simulating simple electrostatic and magnetostatics problems in QuickField with step-by-step visual instructions for plotting electric and magnetic fields, creating contour graphs, and calculating integral values. Chapters 4 through 10 cover electrostatics, magnetostatics, time-harmonic magnetics, transient magnetics, superconductivity, alternating and direct current flow. Chapters 11 and 12 cover thermal and stress analysis and multiphysics examples with coupled heat transfer, stress and electromagnetic coupling. Applications include space capsule atmospheric reentry simulations that couple thermal and stress analysis as well as modeling the temperature distribution resulting from current flow in a fuel cell. The text concludes with Chapter 13 on passive electrical circuits. QuickField includes a CAD-based electrical circuit simulator that simulates circuits with AC or transient time dependence. Applications include filter circuits and equivalent circuit models of neurons and cells under electrical stimulations. |
Chapter 8 - Superconductivity: Exercises
8.1 Model a solid superconducting sphere in a uniform magnetic field in axial symmetry; (a) plot the attenuation of magnetic field along the z-axis outside of the sphere and (b) plot the tangential H-field equal to the supercurrent density along the boundary contour of the sphere.
8.2 Simulate a solid superconducting sphere near a current loop in axial symmetry; (a) compare contour plots of the magnetic field along the z-axis and also between the current loop and the sphere when the sphere is in the superconducting and the normal state and (b) calculate the force between the current loop and the sphere for several locations above the sphere.
8.3 Model a current loop inside a hollow superconducting sphere in axial symmetry. Treat the superconducting shell as a single boundary with (a) calculate the total magnetic field energy inside the sphere for several sphere radii and (b) plot the induced supercurrent density (tangential H) on the inner surface of the sphere.
8.4 Magnetic levitation: Model a permanent magnet above a superconducting plane in x-y symmetry; (a) compare the force between the magnet and the superconducting plane when the coercive force vector is oriented normal and tangential to the superconducting plane and (b) compare the supercurrent density (tangential H) at the surface of the superconductor for each case.
8.5 Simulate a line current; (a) outside a superconducting and (b) a permeable cylinder in x-y symmetry. Calculate the force between a line current and the cylinder when the cylinder is superconducting (take μr = 10-6) and compare to the force between the permeable cylinder (take μr = 104) with the same geometry.
8.6 Plot the z-component magnetic field along the axis of a superconducting disk of radius a in a uniform field modeled in r-z coordinates. Compare to the analytical solution where z is the height above the disk and B0is the flux density in absence of the disk. FIGURE E-8.6 Superconducting disk. Geometry: Axial symmetry. 8.7 Model a superconducting tube in r-z coordinates. Treat the tube as a single boundary with zero vector potential. Plot the z -component magnetic field along the axis of the superconducting tube and compare to the asymptotic value where z is the distance inside the tube of radius a and A is a constant. FIGURE E-8.7 Superconducting tube. Geometry: Axial symmetry. 8.8 Model a superconducting ring in r-z coordinates with a specified inner and outer radius. Treat the ring as a single boundary. Compare the z-component magnetic field along a radial contour inside the ring for both field-cooled and zero field-cooled boundary conditions. Show that the total flux through the zero field-cooled ring is zero. FIGURE E-8.8 Superconducting ring. Geometry: Axial symmetry. 8.9 Magnetic levitation: Model a permanent magnet above a superconducting plane in r-z symmetry; (a) calculate the force between the magnet and the superconducting plane with the coercive force vector oriented normal to the superconducting plane and (b) calculate the supercurrent density (tangential H) at the surface of the superconductor. FIGURE E-8.9 Permanent magnet above a superconducting plane. 8.10 Model a superconducting can of radius a in an axial magnetic field. Make a contour plot of Bz along the axis of the cup. Show that the value of Bz inside the cup measured a distance z from the bottom is given by where A is a constant. FIGURE E-8.10 Superconducting can. Geometry: Axial symmetry. 8.11 Model the dual layer superconducting |l-metal bowl in a uniform magnetic field in axial symmetry. Compare contour plots of the tangential field along the inside surface of the bowl with the outer μ-metal layer to contour plots without the outer μ-metal layer. 8.12 Model a Type-II hollow superconducting sphere in a uniform field. Plot the penetration of flux into the sphere for several external field values. 8.13 A superconducting oblate spheroid is positioned in a uniformusing separation of variables in oblate spheroidal coordinates. Apply the boundary condition of zero normal field on the surface of the oblate spheroid. 8.14 Repeat the calculation in 8.13 for a superconducting prolate spheroid in a uniform field. 8.15 Repeat the calculation in 8.13 for a field cooled superconducting toroid positioned in a uniform z-directed field. 8.16 Model a zero field cooled toroid in a uniform z-directed magnetic field. Solve the vector Laplacian for Aø in axial symmetry using separation of variables in toroidal coordinates. Apply the zero field-cooled condition Aø = 0 on the boundary of the toroid. Find the radial position of the nodal points of vanishing Bz in the center of the ring. |