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Lecture 8: Mesh Analysis: Lecturer: Dr. Vinita Vasudevan Scribe: Shashank Shekhar

1) Mesh analysis involves identifying loops in a circuit that do not cross branches and assigning mesh currents to each loop. The mesh equations are written by applying Kirchhoff's laws. 2) If there is a voltage source between nodes, those nodes form a supernode and only one equation is written for that region. 3) If there is a current source, the equations for the two meshes on either side are added to form a supermesh equation, and the current source value is set equal to the difference between the mesh currents.

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Lecture 8: Mesh Analysis: Lecturer: Dr. Vinita Vasudevan Scribe: Shashank Shekhar

1) Mesh analysis involves identifying loops in a circuit that do not cross branches and assigning mesh currents to each loop. The mesh equations are written by applying Kirchhoff's laws. 2) If there is a voltage source between nodes, those nodes form a supernode and only one equation is written for that region. 3) If there is a current source, the equations for the two meshes on either side are added to form a supermesh equation, and the current source value is set equal to the difference between the mesh currents.

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Electric Circuits and Networks 14-08-2018

Lecture 8: Mesh Analysis


Lecturer: Dr. Vinita Vasudevan Scribe: Shashank Shekhar

Nodal Analysis (cont...)


Example 1: Given vC (0− ) = 2V

1Ω 1Ω

vs

vs (t) +
− 2F
+
− 4u (t) 1

Using laplace transform the above circuit will be as follows:

V1 1Ω V2 1Ω V3

1
2s
4
Vs (s) +
− V4 +
− s
+ 2
− s

1 − e−s
Given vs (t) = u (t) − u (t − 1). So,Vs (s) =
s
As we can observe,V1 , V4 , V3 along with reference node form a supernode.So, we need to
write KCL only at V2 .

V2 (s) (2 + 2s) − 1 · V1 (s) − 1 · V3 (s) − 2sV4 (s) = 0


+
−

i j

If there is a voltage source between nodes i and j, write KCL for supernode. In the above
example,V1 , V4 , & V3 are connected to reference node through voltage source so the supern-
odes are [(1)-(R)],[(4)-(R)] and [(3)-(R)] We do not write KCL for the reference node so only

1
write one equation for node 2. Additional equations are

1 − e−s
V1 = (1)
s
4
V3 = (2)
s
2
V4 = (3)
s
(4)

Therefore,
1 − e−s 2
V2 (s) = +
2s (s + 1) s

Find v2 (t)
Note: Remember that the voltage across capacitor is V2 (s) not V2 (s) − V4 (s)

Mesh Analysis: Find loops that do not cross a branch (no loop inside the loop) → mesh.
Mesh currents are unknowns (assume all mesh currents in clockwise direction)
Example 2:

7Ω 3Ω

+
−
5V − i1 14 Ω i2 + 12V

Mesh 1: − 5 + 7i1 + 14 (i1 − i2 ) = 0


Mesh 2: − 12 + 3i2 + 14 (i2 − i1 ) = 0

or

(7 + 14) i1 − 14i2 = 5
−14i1 + (14 + 3) i2 = 12

In the matrix form, " #" # " #


21 −14 i1 5
=
−14 17 i2 12
Invert the matrix and solve for i1 &i2 . Note that the diagonal entries are the sum of the
impedances in the loop and the off-diagonal terms are the negative of the impedance be-
tween the two loops.
If we have a circuit with N nodes, b branches then the number of meshes will be equal
to b − (N − 1). Explanation is given below:

2
with ’N’ nodes you can form a tree (no loops) with N − 1
branches. Every additional branch you add will form
a loop(mesh) with the exiting tree branches. The mesh
current in the additional branch is independent of the
currents in all other branches; Therefore, the equations
Tree
are independent

5V
current
+
−

can have
any value
+ i1 +
10V − − 5V
voltage
can be
anything

In practice you should never do this.

Example 3: 1Ω

10 Ω i2 5Ω

1Ω
+ i1
3V −
+

5A v1 i3 4Ω

17 Ω

If there is a current source, form a super mesh by adding the equations for two meshes.
Assume voltage across the current source is v1 . The equations for mesh 1 and 3 can be
written as

−3 + 10 (i1 − i2 ) + v1 = 0
1 (i3 − i2 ) + 4i3 + 17i3 − v1 = 0

The equation for supermesh is the sum of the above two equations.

10 (i2 − i1 ) + 5i2 + 1(i2 − i3 ) = 0

3
The additional equation needed can be obtained by writing the current source current as
the difference of two mesh currents.

i3 − i1 = 5A

So we have,

10i1 − (10 + 1)i2 + (17 + 4)i3 = 3


−10i1 + (10 + 5 + 1)i2 − i3 = 0
i1 − i3 = −5

or,

10i1 − (11)i2 + (21)i3 = 3


−10i1 + (16)i2 − i3 = 0
i1 − i3 = −5

we can write above equations in matrix form

 10 −11 21  i1   3 
    
−10 16 −1 i   0 
   2  =  
1 0 −1 i3 −5

Solve these equations for i1 , i2 & i3 .

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