The Calculation of the Magnetic Field Produced by an Arbitrary Shaped Current-carrying Wire in Its Plane

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10.2991/iccia.2012.306How to use a DOI?

Keywords

magnetic field, superposition, segmentation

Abstract

Instead of performing the integration explicitly to calculate the magnetic field from an arbitrary shaped wire, an improved method was proposed. The magnetic field generated by a straight line segment carrying steady current was calculated based on the Biot-Savart law. The new approach is to break the wire down into a number of straight line segments in its plane. According to the principle of vector superposition and coordinate rotation, the magnetic field from the complete current wire can then be calculated by summing the contribution from each of the separate straight line pieces. The simulation results show that the proposed numerical method has high accuracy and faster computational time and is efficient and convenient to the application in projects.

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© 2013, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Zhou Yu
AU  - Changhan Xiao
AU  - Huan Wang
AU  - Yaozhong Zhou
PY  - 2014/05
DA  - 2014/05
TI  - The Calculation of the Magnetic Field Produced by an Arbitrary Shaped Current-carrying Wire in Its Plane
BT  - Proceedings of the 2012 2nd International Conference on Computer and Information Application (ICCIA 2012)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 1237
EP  - 1240
SN  - 1951-6851
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/iccia.2012.306
DO  - 10.2991/iccia.2012.306
ID  - Yu2014/05
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