Validation and comparison of circular coils’ inductive coupling models

•The measuring of the mutual inductance and the magnetic flux between resonant coils is presented.•Theoretical background is discussed and theoretical models are presented and validate.•A practical implementation is illustrated and employed to validate the considered numerical models.•The proposed modeling and experimental setup provide high-accuracy measurements. In this paper, modeling of inductive coupling between circular coils is analyzed. We present a system for measuring the mutual inductance and the magnetic flux between resonant coils. We investigate the accuracy and precision against data obtained through the FastHenry2 simulation software and through experiments, when these are available (Pasku et al., 2017). The theoretical background is discussed, theoretical models are presented, and their properties are compared to those of other published models. A practical implementation is illustrated and employed to validate the considered numerical models. Obtained results demonstrate that the proposed modeling and experimental setup provide high-accuracy measurements of the induced voltage. Field measurements validate the considered numerical models with a discrepancy of less than 10% with respect to measurement results.