Reconstruction of transient currents from magnetic data
ISSN: 0332-1649
Article publication date: 1 December 2005
Abstract
Purpose
To provide a time domain formulation for reconstruction of transient currents flowing in massive parallel conductors from magnetic data collected in the dielectric space surrounding the conductors.
Design/methodology/approach
A boundary integral equation (BIE) formulation involving Mitzner's and Rytov's high order surface impedance boundary conditions (SIBCs) is used. Input data of the inverse problem are the magnetic fields at given locations near the conductors. In order to validate the inversion algorithm, the magnetic field data are computed solving the direct problem with FEM for given current waveforms.
Findings
The improvement in reconstruction accuracy of the new time domain BIE formulation employing high order SIBCs has been demonstrated numerically in a simple test case. The range of validity of the technique has been extended to current pulses of longer duration and the computational burden has shown to increase only by a factor of 4.
Research limitations/implications
The proposed formulation can be compared with other possible formulations, both in the time and in the frequency domain.
Practical implications
Based on this formulation a new current sensing technique is proposed for realization of low cost current sensors based on magnetic sensor arrays.
Originality/value
The inverse problem addressed in the paper has been solved for the first time.
Keywords
Citation
Di Rienzo, L., Yuferev, S., Ida, N. and Mario Arturi, C. (2005), "Reconstruction of transient currents from magnetic data", COMPEL - The international journal for computation and mathematics in electrical and electronic engineering, Vol. 24 No. 4, pp. 1200-1212. https://doi.org/10.1108/03321640510615553
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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