Effects of Nb Content on the Microstructure and Magnetic Properties of the Sm₁.₂Zr₀.₂(Fe₀.₈Co₀.₂)₁₁.₅-ₓ Ti₀.₅Nbₓ (x=0 –0.4, at.%) Alloys

ThMn12-type SmFe12-based magnet is suggested to be a promising permanent magnet because of its intrinsic magnetic properties and thermal stability. However, their potential applications are currently limited, as the existence of a soft magnetic α -Fe phase in the alloy deteriorates the hard magnetic properties. Hence, in this work, Nb element was introduced into the […]

Effective Medium Transformation: The Case of Eddy Currents in Laminated Iron Cores

Effective medium theory replaces a given fine-scale heterostructure with a homogeneous one in such a way that the physically measurable quantities, e.g., reaction fields and losses, remain approximately the same. This article presents a peculiar case where the physical nature of the problem and the type of governing mathematical equations change upon homogenization. We consider […]

An Equilibrated Error Estimator for the Multiscale Finite Element Method of a 2-D Eddy Current Problem

The multiscale finite element method (MSFEM) is a valuable tool to solve the eddy current problem in laminated materials consisting of many iron sheets, which would be prohibitively expensive to resolve in a finite element mesh. It allows using a coarse mesh that does not resolve each sheet and constructs the local fields using predefined […]