A novel method for modeling the air gap flux density of the axial-flux permanent magnet eddy current coupler considering the end-effect

Abstract The virtual equivalent line method for the axial-flux permanent magnet eddy current coupler is proposed in this paper to solve the problem of the difference in the length of the magnetic flux path between the inner radius and outer radius of the axial section of the radial centerline of the magnetic pole. Different from the average radius equivalent method, the virtual equivalent line method adopts the function of variable pole radius instead of the fixed average radius, which establishes a uniform analytical expression of the air gap flux density and can accurately calculate the magnetic flux density at any magnetic pole radius. Furthermore, the end-effect compensation function is obtained. In order to investigate the effectiveness of the proposed method, the results calculated by the analytical method are compared with the finite element method. It is shown that the novel method proposed in this paper is highly consistent with the air gap flux density calculated by the finite element method.