4.4 Article

Error Estimation and Adaptive Mesh Refinement for the Unstructured Inductive PEEC Formulation

Journal

IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MAGNETICS
Volume 58, Issue 3, Pages -

Publisher

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2021.3137657

Keywords

Equivalent circuits; Finite element analysis; Magnetics; Error analysis; Faces; Electric fields; Adaptive mesh refinement; Adaptive mesh refinement; error estimators; integral method; unstructured partial element equivalent circuit (PEEC) method

Funding

  1. G2ELab
  2. Altair Engineering France

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An adaptive mesh refinement procedure is proposed for efficiently addressing low-frequency electromagnetic problems using the unstructured partial element equivalent circuit (PEEC) method. The procedure includes a posteriori error estimator based on an equilibrated energy criterion, and an auxiliary method for calculating a second admissible solution. The effectiveness of the procedure is demonstrated through two test cases, highlighting the potential of the unstructured PEEC method for modeling complex devices.
An adaptive mesh refinement procedure is presented in order to address efficiently low-frequency electromagnetic problems with the unstructured partial element equivalent circuit (PEEC) method. A posteriori error estimator based on an equilibrated energy criterion is proposed, which means that two dual solutions are necessary. In fact, knowing that there is no dual formulation for the PEEC method, an auxiliary method is proposed in order to calculate a second admissible solution. This method is based on a projection of the PEEC solution from facets to edges function space in order to ensure the continuity of the electric field in the mesh. Two test cases have been treated in order to show the efficiency of the procedure. First, an inductive coupling test case is the TEAM Workshop problem no degrees 7. Second, a circuit coupling test case is a laminated busbar, this last one being treated for a low-frequency case and also for the dc case. The adaptive mesh refinement procedure has shown great potential and makes the unstructured PEEC method much more functional and attractive for modeling complex devices.

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