Field distribution and power loss assessment in conductive rod cores exhibiting hysteresis

Recently, a new numerical approach for core loss evaluation in media exhibiting hysteresis has been proposed for relatively long conductive rods, subject to surface excitation along their azimuthal direction. In this approach, the Crank-Nicolson finite-difference technique is used, while enact media properties are taken into account by utilizing Preisach-type models of hysteresis. The purpose of this paper is to provide some experimental verification of the aforementioned approach. Accuracy of this approach has been assessed for a 2 cm diameter, 25 cm long iron alloy rod. Voltage wave-forms and core losses corresponding to some controlled applied field frequencies and amplitudes were experimentally deduced. For every experimentally considered excitation amplitude and frequency, computations were performed rising the developed approach. Comparisons have demonstrated good quantitative agreements between the experimentally measured computed results. Sample comparison results are given in the paper.