Finite-Element 2-D Model of Induction Heating of Rotating Billets in System of Permanent Magnets and its Experimental Verification

An alternative way of induction heating of nonmagnetic cylindrical billets is modeled. The billet rotates in static magnetic field generated by permanent magnets. The mathematical model of the process consisting of two second-order partial differential equations describing the distributions of magnetic and temperature fields is solved numerically in the quasi-coupled formulation. The computations are carried out by a fully adaptive higher order finite-element method that is implemented in own codes Agros2D and library Hermes. The most important results are verified experimentally on a prototype device built in our laboratory.

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