Matlab Examples and Exercises

This document provides the solution to an exercise problem involving calculating and plotting the magnetic field generated by a toroid with a current. It includes: 1) A description of the toroid geometry and current. 2) The analytical solution for calculating the magnetic field, which involves dividing the winding into segments and calculating the contribution from each using cylindrical and Cartesian coordinates. 3) Illustrations of the toroid cross-section and relevant angles and coordinates.

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MATLAB Examples and Exercises (Set 16 solution)

ECE3FI4
Theory and Applications in Electromagnetic

Term II, January April 2007

MATLAB Example and Exercises (Set 16 solution)

Prepared by: Dr. M. H. Bakr and C. He

Exercise: a toroid whose axis is the z axis carries a current of 5.0 A and has 200 turns. The inner radius is
1.5 cm while the outer radius is 2.5 cm. Write a MATLAB program that compute and plots the magnetic
field in the x-y plane in the region 4.0 cm 4.0 cm x and 4.0 cm 4.0 cm y .

5.0 A I =
o
u
t
2
.
5

c
m
R
=
in
1
.5
c
m
R
=
x
y
z

Figure E16.1 See the exercise problem

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MATLAB Examples and Exercises (Set 16 solution)

Analytical solution:
The cross section of the toriod is shown in Figure E16.2. Similar to the example problem, we can assign each
point on the winding an angle value. For instance, if a point has a ( is the angle shown in Figure E16.2) of
/3 , and it is on the third turn, then the angle value we assign to this point is ' /3 2 (3 1) 13 /3 = + = .
general, ' 2( 1) k = + , where , 1 number of turns k Z k and 0 2 < . Knowing the value of ' ,
we can find the cylindrical coordinates of a point on the k-th turn :
1 2 1 2
cos cos ' R R R R R = + = + (1)
2( 1)
Number of turns
k

= (2)
2 2
sin sin ' z R R = = (3)
Then we want to divide the winding to many segment along the direction of the current I in order to allow
MATLAB program to calculate the magnetic field. Assume we want to divide the winding to n segments,
then we have to pick up n+1 points on the winding. And for the i-th point, the angle is given by
max min
min
' '
' ' ( 1)
i
i
n

= + , where
min
' 0 = and ( )
max
' 2 Number of turns =
by plugging this equation into (1) (2) and (3), we can find
i
R ,
i
, and
i
z . Also, we can find the rectangular
coordinate
i
x ,
i
y ,and
i
z by using the formula
cos
i i i
x R =
sin
i i
y R =
i i
z z =
Note the i-th segment is a vector given by
1 1 1
( ( (
i i i x i i y i i y
x x y y z z
+ + +
= + + L )a )a )a
and the vector
i
R (pointing from the center of the i-th segment to the observation point) is given by
( )
1 1 1
, , , ,
2 2 2
i i i i i i
i i
x x y y z z
P C x y z
+ + +

= =

R

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MATLAB Examples and Exercises (Set 16 solution)

5.0 A I =
O

1
R
2
R
R
M
z

Figure E16.2 Cross section view of the toroid in the example
problem. R and z are cylindrical coordinates of point M. It
can be shown that
1 2
cos R R R = + ,
2
sin z R = . And if M
is on the k-th turn,
2( 1)
Number of turns
k