A variational approach to the macroscopic electrodynamics of anisotropic hard superconductors

DOI10.1007/S00205-008-0125-5MaRDI QIDQ834739zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Graziano Crasta, Annalisa Malusa

Publication date 27 August 2009

Published in Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0612597

zbMATH Keywords

macroscopic electrodynamicsMaxwell equationssuperconductor

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Variational methods applied to problems in optics and electromagnetic theory (78M30) Statistical mechanics of superconductors (82D55)

Abstract: We consider the Bean's critical state model for anisotropic superconductors. A variational problem solved by the quasi--static evolution of the internal magnetic field is obtained as the $Gamma$-limit of functionals arising from the Maxwell's equations combined with a power law for the dissipation. Moreover, the quasi--static approximation of the internal electric field is recovered, using a first order necessary condition. If the sample is a long cylinder subjected to an axial uniform external field, the macroscopic electrodynamics is explicitly determined.

Review text

This paper deals with a variational problem arising in the study of the Bean critical state model for anisotropic superconductors. The approach is based on a quasistatic evolution of the penetrated magnetic field, which is obtained by combining the finite-difference expression of Faraday's law with Bean's law. In the last part of the paper the authors are concerned with a special case of a long cylindrical anisotropic superconductor placed into a nonstationary, uniform axial magnetic field. The parallel geometry enables a two-dimensional reduction of the problem, which can be explicitly solved. Most of the results described in the present paper are described by means of the \(\Gamma\)-convergence theory.

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