Analysis and simulations of multifrequency induction hardening

DOI10.1016/J.NONRWA.2014.07.007MaRDI QIDQ474994zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Dietmar Hömberg, Thomas Petzold, Elisabetta Rocca

Publication date 25 November 2014

Published in Nonlinear Analysis. Real World Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1401.2013

austenite fraction finite element simulations heat equation induction coil Maxwell's equations multifrequency induction hardening stability estimates steel workpiece well-posedness of the initial boundary value problem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

A priori estimates in context of PDEs (35B45) Weak solutions to PDEs (35D30) PDEs in connection with optics and electromagnetic theory (35Q60) PDEs in connection with classical thermodynamics and heat transfer (35Q79) Electro- and magnetostatics (78A30) Finite element, Galerkin and related methods applied to problems in optics and electromagnetic theory (78M10) Finite element, Galerkin and related methods applied to problems in thermodynamics and heat transfer (80M10)

Abstract: We study a model for induction hardening of steel. The related differential system consists of a time domain vector potential formulation of the Maxwell's equations coupled with an internal energy balance and an ODE for the volume fraction of {sl austenite}, the high temperature phase in steel. We first solve the initial boundary value problem associated by means of a Schauder fixed point argument coupled with suitable a-priori estimates and regularity results. Moreover, we prove a stability estimate entailing, in particular, uniqueness of solutions for our Cauchy problem. We conclude with some finite element simulations for the coupled system.

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The authors present and study a model accounting for induction hardening of steel. They consider a domain \(D\subset \mathbb{R}^{3}\) containing the inductor coil \(\Omega \) and the steel workpiece \(\Sigma \), assuming that \( \overline{\Omega }\subset D\), \(\overline{\Sigma }\subset D\) and \(\overline{ \Omega }\cap \overline{\Sigma }\neq \varnothing \), \(\partial \Omega \), \( \partial \Sigma \) and \(\partial D\) being supposed to belong to \(C^{1,1}\). The authors look for a triple \((A,\vartheta ,z)\) which satisfies a variational vector potential formulation of Maxwell's equations for the magnetic potential \(A\), a parabolic heat equation for the temperature \( \vartheta \) and a first-order differential equation for the austenite fraction \(z\) inside the steel workpiece. Robin type boundary conditions are imposed to the temperature \(\vartheta \) on \(\partial \Sigma \times (0,T)\) and initial conditions are given for each element of the triple. The main result of the paper proves the existence of a unique weak solution to this coupled problem in Sobolev spaces, under hypotheses on the data. The authors also prove stability estimates for this solution. For the proof of the existence and uniqueness result, the authors mainly use Schauder's fixed point theorem and they establish uniform estimates on the local in time solution. The last part of the paper briefly presents numerical results concerning the resolution of this problem which is based on curl-conforming finite elements as introduced by \textit{J.-C. Nedelec} [Numer. Math. 35, 315--341 (1980; Zbl 0419.65069)].

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