An Alternative Formulation of the Harrison Model

The approach advanced by Harrison puts in the spotlight the fundamental role of bistability in hysteresis modeling. The description is based on physical premises concerning irreversible thermodynamics. In the original model, the upscaling of irreversible phenomena acting on the micromagnetic level is carried out by the introduction of a phenomenological parameter β. In the present paper, an alternative approach is proposed. The outputs of individual outputs of elementary hysteresis units (hysterons) are considered like in the stop model. A verification of the proposed model is carried out using measurement data for a praseodymium–dysprosium ribbon sample and a cylinder core made of cobalt-based amorphous material.