Electric and Magnetic Field Calculations with Finite-Element Methods by Stanley Humphries - HTML preview

Contents

1 Introduction 4

2 Installing 2D electric-field software 6

3 First 2D electrostatic solution 11

4 Electrostatic application: building the mesh 19

5 Electrostatic application: calculating and analyzing fields 26

6 Electrostatic application: meshing and accuracy 30

7 Magnetostatic solution: simple coil with boundaries 38

8 Magnetostatic solution: boundary effects and automatic operation 45

9 Magnetostatic solution: the role of steel 50

10 Magnetostatic solution: when steel gets complicated 56

11 Magnetostatic solution: permanent magnets 64

12 Adding 3D software 70

13 3D electrostatic example: STL input 73

14 3D electrostatic example: mesh generation and solution 77

15 3D electrostatic application: getting started 81

16 3D electrostatic application: extrusions 87

17 3D electrostatic application: mutual capacitance 94

18 3D magnetic fields: defining coil currents 102

19 3D magnetic fields: free-space calculations 109

20 3D magnetic fields: iron and permanent magnets 117