The Influence of Electromagnetic Scattering from a Permeable Sphere
on the Induced Voltage across a Rotating Eccentric Coil
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same set of parameters. Note that in all the previous ex-
amples, the presence of the scatterer makes the produced
oscillating voltage to have nonzero average value owning
similar waveforms to Urms. This is not the case; when ω
is chosen close to ω0, there is a substantial increase for
growing frequencies. After numerical trials, we con-
cluded that the shape of the equal Udc levels in Figure
4(b) resemble rotated hyperbolas with narrow extent
following an asymptotic law of:
fundamental phenomena in electromagnetics (induction
and scattering) have not been studied yet.
The variation of the measured output is represented as
function of the sphere’s characteristic parameters and
several conclusions are drawn describing its effect on the
magnetic flux through the coil. An interesting expansion
of the present study would be to assume a spherical scat-
terer with inhomogeneities and/or anisotropies, or to
modify slightly the shape of the core using oblate sphe-
roid coordinates and functions. Also, closed wires of
arbitrary curvature rotating around arbitrary axes could
be also investigated with use of the same techniques.
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0
3
5
2
dc
UOωωω ω
0
3
(13)
In Figure 5, we show in contour plot the relative dif-
ference between the estimation of the RMS voltage via
normal expression (4) and its evaluation through the al-
ternative Formula (11). This percent error is represented
as function of the quantities (a/b, d/b), where a + d b,
and one can observe that its magnitude is very low (be-
low 0.0002%). As the truncation limit (number of terms
summed) in the series (9) is kept fixed, the error gets
more significant for more sizeable scatterers. Addition-
ally, the more eccentric is the position of the sphere, the
more substantial is the recorded quantity. As far as most
of the numerical results represented in previous figures
are concerned, they have been verified through the area
integral (11) and remarkable coincidence with (4) is ex-
hibited.
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0 0.1
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Figure 5. Contour plot of the percent error in computing
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rms through (4) and (11), with
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