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[eric.seip]

I am trying to create a damper in a cylinder filled with magnetorheolgical fluid with a piston attached to a wire wrapped core which will activate the fluid when a current is applied.  Is there a way to create the magnetic fluid so I can accurately simulate the effects and strength of magnetic fields in the cylinder as current changes?

Lastly, in maxwell 2D when assigning the current excitation in the coil, is it correct to set the value as amps/per turn.  So if we apply 1A current to the coil and its 100 turns we would enter 100A?  My model is a cross section with symetry about the Z-axis if this changes anything. 

Thanks

[Ivonne Marti]

Hi Eric,

If you want to take into account the fluid in your simulation, then you should use Ansys Fluent (CFD tool). This tool can algo compute some electromagnetics.

In Maxwell 2D Magnetostatic Solver, the Current Excitation is the total current in the cross-section of an object. So, as you pointed, amps/per turn.

Ivonne