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On a decoupled linear FEM integrator for eddy-current-LLG

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Pages 1051-1067 | Received 26 Jul 2013, Accepted 13 Apr 2014, Published online: 02 Jun 2014
 

Abstract

We propose a numerical integrator for the coupled system of the eddy-current equation with the nonlinear Landau–Lifshitz–Gilbert equation. The considered effective field contains a general field contribution, and we particularly cover exchange, anisotropy, applied field and magnetic field (stemming from the eddy-current equation). Even though the considered problem is nonlinear, our scheme requires only the solution of two linear systems per time-step. Moreover, our algorithm decouples both equations so that in each time-step, one linear system is solved for the magnetization, and afterwards one linear system is solved for the magnetic field. Unconditional convergence – at least of a subsequence – towards a weak solution is proved, and our analysis even provides existence of such weak solutions. Numerical experiments with micromagnetic benchmark problems underline the performance and the stability of the proposed algorithm.

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Acknowledgements

The authors acknowledge financial support through the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) project P21732, the Vienna Science and Technology Fund (WWTF) project MA09-29, and the Australian Research Council (ARC) project DP120101886.

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