A semi-smooth Newton method for magnetic field problems with hysteresis

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Main Authors: Egger, Herbert, Engertsberger, Felix
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author Egger, Herbert
Engertsberger, Felix
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Engertsberger, Felix
contents Ferromagnetic materials exhibit anisotropy, saturation, and hysteresis. We here study the incorporation of an incremental vector hysteresis model representing such complex behavior into nonlinear magnetic field problems both, from a theoretical and a numerical point of view. We show that the hysteresis operators, relating magnetic fields and fluxes at every material point, are strongly monotone and Lipschitz continuous. This allows to ensure well-posedness of the corresponding magnetic field problems and appropriate finite element discretizations thereof. We further show that the hysteresis operators are semi-smooth, derive a candidate for their generalized Jacobians, and establish global linear and local superlinear convergence of a the semi-smooth Newton method with line search applied to the iterative solution of the discretized nonlinear field problems. The results are proven in detail for a hysteresis model involving a single pinning force and the scalar potential formulation of magnetostatics. The extension to multiple pinning forces and the vector potential formulation is possible and briefly outlined. The theoretical results are further illustrated by numerical tests.
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spellingShingle A semi-smooth Newton method for magnetic field problems with hysteresis
Egger, Herbert
Engertsberger, Felix
Numerical Analysis
65K10, 65N30, 49M15, 65K15 46N10
Ferromagnetic materials exhibit anisotropy, saturation, and hysteresis. We here study the incorporation of an incremental vector hysteresis model representing such complex behavior into nonlinear magnetic field problems both, from a theoretical and a numerical point of view. We show that the hysteresis operators, relating magnetic fields and fluxes at every material point, are strongly monotone and Lipschitz continuous. This allows to ensure well-posedness of the corresponding magnetic field problems and appropriate finite element discretizations thereof. We further show that the hysteresis operators are semi-smooth, derive a candidate for their generalized Jacobians, and establish global linear and local superlinear convergence of a the semi-smooth Newton method with line search applied to the iterative solution of the discretized nonlinear field problems. The results are proven in detail for a hysteresis model involving a single pinning force and the scalar potential formulation of magnetostatics. The extension to multiple pinning forces and the vector potential formulation is possible and briefly outlined. The theoretical results are further illustrated by numerical tests.
title A semi-smooth Newton method for magnetic field problems with hysteresis
topic Numerical Analysis
65K10, 65N30, 49M15, 65K15 46N10
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01499