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2.4 Maxwell’s Equations

[Peter Monk: “Finite Elements for Maxwell’s Equations”]

Magnetostatic field generated by a permanent magnet

magnetic flux \(B\), magnetic field \(H\), given magnetization \(M\):

\[\DeclareMathOperator{\Grad}{grad} \DeclareMathOperator{\Curl}{curl} \DeclareMathOperator{\Div}{div} B = \mu (H + M), \quad \Div B = 0, \quad \Curl H = 0\]

Introducing a vector-potential \(A\) such that \(B = \Curl A\), and putting equations together we get

\[\Curl \mu^{-1} \Curl A = \Curl M\]

In weak form: Find \(A \in H(\Curl)\) such that

\[\int \mu^{-1} \Curl A \Curl v = \int M \Curl v \qquad \forall \, v \in H(\Curl)\]

Usually, the permeability \(\mu\) is given as \(\mu = \mu_r \mu_0\), with \(\mu_0 = 4 \pi 10^{-7}\) the permeability of vacuum.

[1]:

from ngsolve import *
from ngsolve.webgui import Draw
from netgen.csg import *

Geometric model and meshing of a bar magnet:

[2]:

box = OrthoBrick(Pnt(-3,-3,-3),Pnt(3,3,3)).bc("outer")
magnet = Cylinder(Pnt(-1,0,0),Pnt(1,0,0), 0.3) * OrthoBrick(Pnt(-1,-3,-3),Pnt(1,3,3))
air = box - magnet

geo = CSGeometry()
geo.Add (air.mat("air"), transparent=True)
geo.Add (magnet.mat("magnet").maxh(1), col=(0.3,0.3,0.1))
geo.Draw()
mesh = Mesh(geo.GenerateMesh(maxh=2, curvaturesafety=1))
mesh.Curve(3)

[2]:

<ngsolve.comp.Mesh at 0x7f0d4525c360>

[3]:

mesh.GetMaterials(), mesh.GetBoundaries()

[3]:

(('air', 'magnet'),
 ('outer',
  'outer',
  'outer',
  'outer',
  'outer',
  'outer',
  'default',
  'default',
  'default'))

Define space, forms and preconditioner.

  • To obtain a regular system matrix, we regularize by adding a very small \(L_2\) term.

  • We solve magnetostatics, so we can gauge by adding and arbitrary gradient field. A cheap possibility is to delete all basis-functions which are gradients (flag ‘nograds’)

[4]:

fes = HCurl(mesh, order=3, dirichlet="outer", nograds=True)
print ("ndof =", fes.ndof)
u,v = fes.TnT()

from math import pi
mu0 = 4*pi*1e-7
mur = mesh.MaterialCF({"magnet" : 1000}, default=1)

a = BilinearForm(fes)
a += 1/(mu0*mur)*curl(u)*curl(v)*dx + 1e-8/(mu0*mur)*u*v*dx
c = Preconditioner(a, "bddc")

f = LinearForm(fes)
mag = mesh.MaterialCF({"magnet" : (1,0,0)}, default=(0,0,0))
f += mag*curl(v) * dx("magnet")

ndof = 25068

Assemble system and setup preconditioner using task-parallelization:

[5]:

with TaskManager():
    a.Assemble()
    f.Assemble()

Finally, declare GridFunction and solve by preconditioned CG iteration:

[6]:

gfu = GridFunction(fes)
with TaskManager():
    solvers.CG(sol=gfu.vec, rhs=f.vec, mat=a.mat, pre=c.mat)

WARNING: maxsteps is deprecated, use maxiter instead!
CG iteration 1, residual = 0.0048325399628490456
CG iteration 2, residual = 0.0028801984652913493
CG iteration 3, residual = 0.0022636840717767817
CG iteration 4, residual = 0.0018596783443640282
CG iteration 5, residual = 0.0013706814431410205
CG iteration 6, residual = 0.0009629315328718021
CG iteration 7, residual = 0.0006784248172513831
CG iteration 8, residual = 0.00045373479988693595
CG iteration 9, residual = 0.00033739845235846664
CG iteration 10, residual = 0.00026636366966670483
CG iteration 11, residual = 0.0001578586571670998
CG iteration 12, residual = 0.00010596525810194424
CG iteration 13, residual = 7.440611757876551e-05
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CG iteration 31, residual = 8.212387903172255e-08
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CG iteration 49, residual = 8.618066083500679e-11
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CG iteration 73, residual = 6.278554627068153e-15
CG iteration 74, residual = 4.175264377281126e-15

[7]:

# the vector potential is not supposed to look nice
Draw (gfu, mesh, "vector-potential", draw_surf=False, clipping=True)

Draw (curl(gfu), mesh, "B-field", draw_surf=False, clipping=True)
Draw (1/(mu0*mur)*curl(gfu)-mag, mesh, "H-field", draw_surf=False, clipping=True)

[7]:

BaseWebGuiScene

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