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Study of stiff converging problems in magnetic field calculation

Thesis/Dissertation ·
OSTI ID:5190885

This thesis is mainly devoted to the numerical solutions of stiff converging problems in magnetic fields. Stiff problems are the ones whose converging process in iterative methods is extremely slow. The solution of many micromagnetic problems lead to unbounded nonlinear partial differential equations. A standard technique to convert these problems to boundary value problems is to assume that the geometry is periodic and then limit the solution to a bounded region. This can be done by introducing Dirichlet boundary conditions at points of odd symmetry and Neumann boundary conditions at points of even symmetry. These problems are then solved numerically using iterative techniques. It is shown that introducing Neumann boundary condition in any form slows down the convergence of the iterative process. A technique is introduced to give a measure of the degree of stiffness in linear cases. A numerical model for Barkhausen coercivity, which is an elliptic type nonlinear partial differential equation with stiff converging property, is used to calculate the coercivity of a garnet material known as Ca-Ge substituted YIG. This particular garnet, grown by liquid phase epitaxy is used in bubble memory devices and is believed to be the perfect magnetic material. A complete analysis is performed to measure the sensitivity of calculated coercivity to input parameters and the result of this calculation will be compared to experiment.

Research Organization:
Wayne State Univ., Detroit, MI (USA)
OSTI ID:
5190885
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English