MUTUAL INDUCTANCE AND FORCE EXERTED BETWEEN THICK COILS

Abstract

We present exact three-dimensional semi-analytical ex- pressions of the force exerted between two coaxial thick coils with rect- angular cross-sections. Then, we present a semi-analytical formulation of their mutual inductance. For this purpose, we have to calculate six and seven integrations for calculating the force and the mutual induc- tance respectively. After mathematical manipulations, we can obtain semi-analytical formulations based on only two integrations. It is to be noted that such integrals can be evaluated numerically as they are smooth and derivable. Then, we compare our results with the flla- ment and the flnite element methods. All the results are in excellent agreement.