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Electrical machines employing superconductors are attractive solutions in a variety of application domains. Numerical models are powerful and necessary tools to optimize their design and predict their performance. The electromagnetic…
We establish lower semi-continuity and strict convexity of the energy functionals for a large class of vector equilibrium problems in logarithmic potential theory. This in particular implies the existence and uniqueness of a minimizer for…
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The magnetostatic field distribution in a nonlinear medium amounts to the unique minimizer of the magnetic coenergy over all fields that can be generated by the same current. This is a nonlinear saddlepoint problem whose numerical solution…
This paper presents a modeling and optimization framework to minimize the energy consumption of a fully electric powertrain by optimizing its design and control strategies whilst explicitly accounting for the thermal behavior of the…
The major advantage of reduced magnetic vector potential formulations (RMVPs) is that complicated coil structures do not need to be resolved by a computational mesh. Instead, they are modeled by thin wires, whose source field is included…
A convex formulation is proposed for optimal energy management in aircraft with hybrid propulsion systems consisting of gas turbine and electric motor components. By combining a point-mass aircraft dynamical model with models of electrical…
Hysteresis is a phenomenon that is observed in a great variety of physical systems, which leads to a nonlinear and multivalued behavior, making their modeling and control difficult. Even though the analysis and mathematical properties of…
In this note we discuss the numerical solution of the eddy current approximation of the Maxwell equations using the simple Pragmatic Algebraic Model to include hysteresis effects. In addition to the more standard time-stepping approach we…
We investigate the variational formulation and corresponding minimizing energies for the detection of energetically favorable magnetization states of thin cylindrical magnetic nanodots. Opposed to frequently used heuristic procedures found…
We look into minimizing the hydrogen fuel consumption of hydrogen hybrid trains by optimizing their operation. The powertrain considered is a fuel cell charge-sustaining hybrid. Convex optimization is utilized to compute optimal speed and…
In this work, we review the framework of the Virtual Element Method (VEM) for a model in magneto-hydrodynamics (MHD), that incorporates a coupling between electromagnetics and fluid flow, and allows us to construct novel discretizations for…
The Stoner-Wohlfarth is the most used model of magnetic hysteresis, but its computation is time-consuming. We use machine learning to approximate piecewise this model by easy-to-compute analytic functions. Our parametrization is suitable…
We prove existence and uniqueness of a solution to the problem of minimizing the logarithmic energy of vector potentials associated to a $d$-tuple of positive measures supported on closed subsets of the complex plane. The assumptions we…
A novel energy minimization formulation of electrostatics that allows computation of the electrostatic energy and forces to any desired accuracy in a system with arbitrary dielectric properties is presented. An integral equation for the…
We consider a setting in which an evolving surface is implicitly characterized as the zero level of a level set function. Such an implicit surface does not encode any information about the path of a single point on the evolving surface. In…
Finite-element simulations of magnetostatic fields are performed in terms of magnetic vector and total scalar potentials and compared for purpose of modeling the accelerator magnets. The potentials represent the unknown variables associated…
We analyze a model of the evolution of a (solid) magnetoelastic material. More specifically, the model we consider describes the evolution of a compressible magnetoelastic material with a non-convex energy and coupled to a gradient flow…
This paper outlines an energy-minimization finite-element approach to the modeling of equilibrium configurations for nematic liquid crystals in the presence of internal and external electric fields. The method targets minimization of system…