FEM-simulation of single and multi layered induction heating systems

Abstract EN

Induction heating system has a number of inherent benefits compared to traditional heating systems.

Many analytical and numerical approaches have been applied to solve the problem of induction heating; efforts are made to introduce new development in computational approaches and utilization of newly developed specialized software packages to improve the methods of analysis and design of induction heating systems.

This paper includes the description of the steps used for developing a general and comprehensive program, which works under ANSYS 11.0SP1 package environment.

This program can be applied to analyze a wide range of induction heating applications according to finite element method.

Analysis approach is extended to deal with induction heating systems with magnetic material workpieces by introducing the multiregion method.

Results of analysis the induction heating systems, by using ANSYS package, include all the electromagnetic and thermal quantities related to the induction heating process.

To approve the simulation, used in this work, the results were compared with published practical measurements, a good agreement was achieved.