Magnetic field analysis of laminated core by using homogenization method

This paper describes an approach to efficient modeling of the microscopic structure of magnetic materials in the nonlinear magnetostatic field analysis of a laminated core. When the ordinary finite element method is applied, large memory and computational cost are required due to the huge number of elements generated by detailed modeling of a laminated core. In order to overcome the above difficulties, we introduce the homogenization method, which is widely used in continuum mechanics, into the magnetic field computation and expand the method into the nonlinear analysis. Furthermore, the specialized homogenization method for a laminated core is carried out to verify the above homogenization method in the electromagnetism. Some numerical results are also presented to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.