Computation of Macroscopic Electromagnetic Properties of Soft Magnetic Composite

This paper presents a new numerical method to compute the macroscopic electromagnetic properties of the soft magnetic composite (SMC). In present method, SMC is assumed to be composed of homogeneous magnetic bricks with periodicity. The macroscopic electromagnetic properties of SMC are obtained using the finite element method in which it is assumed that the homogenized energy is equal to that stored in a unit domain. We compare the macroscopic electromagnetic properties obtained by the present method with those obtained by Ollendorf's formula and magnetic circuit based on the nonmagnetic grain boundary model. It is shown that the three results are in good agreement when assuming constant permeability. It is also found that there are clear discrepancies among them due to magnetic saturations especially when the demagnetization coefficient is large.