I am trying to apply the Biot-Savart law to calculate the magnetic fluxdensity (B) and inductance (L) of a racetrack shaped coil (twosemi-circular ends with straight lines in between).
I have extended an example of applying the Biot-Savart law for a simplecircular coil by shifting the two halves of the coil by the straightparts of the coil. The code is written below.
I want to calculate B_z for all points in the x-y plane and have used a'unit' current of 1 A to make the calculation simpler. The inductancewould be L = phi (as I = 1 A), where phi would be calculated by phi =B*(area around each B point).
There seems to be something wrong in my code, but I'm unsure as towhere it might be. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
% current_loop_mark.m
clear all
close all
clc
% current loop ============================================
a = 1 ; % radius of current loop
b = 2 ; % length of straight part
N = 360; % number of elements in current loop
M = 10; % number of elements in straight part of coil
dlength = b/M; % unit of length for each element in straight part
theta = zeros(1,N); % angle of current loop element
straight = ones(1,M); % matrix for straight elements
xC = zeros(1,N+M); % xyz coordinates for point current loop element
yC = zeros(1,N+M);
zC = zeros(1,N+M);
dtheta = 360/N;
theta(1) = dtheta/2;
theta(end) = 360-dtheta/2;
for c = 2 : N-1
theta(c) = (c-1)*dtheta+theta(1);
end
for c = 1 : (N-1)/2
xC(c) = a.*cosd(theta(c)); yC(c) = a.*sind(theta(c))+b/2;
end
for c = N/2 : N
xC(c) = a.*cosd(theta(c)); yC(c) = a.*sind(theta(c))-b/2;
end
for c = N+1 : N+M
xC(c) = -a; yC(c) = b/2-b/M;
end
for c = N+M+1 : N+2M
xC(c) = a; yC(c) = -b/2+b/M;
end
L_N = 2*pi*a/N; % length of each current loop element
Lx_N = L_N.*cosd(90+theta); Ly_N = L_N.*sind(90+theta);
L_M = b/2;
Lx_M = [a a a a a -a -a -a -a -a];
Ly_M = [b/2 b/2-2*b/M b/2-4*b/M b/2-6*b/M b/2-8*b/M b/2 b/2-2*b/M b/2-4*b/M b/2-6*b/M b/2-8*b/M];
clear theta
% Detector space (xP, yP, zP) where B is calculated ===================
NP = 500; % Detector points NP x N
xPmax = 4*a; % Dimensions of detector space
yPmax = 4*a;
zPmin = 1*a/4; zPmax = 8*a;
xP = linspace(-xPmax,xPmax,NP);
yP = linspace(-yPmax,yPmax,NP);
%zP = linspace(zPmin,zPmax,NP);
[xxP yyP] = meshgrid(xP,yP);
Bx = zeros(NP,NP);By = Bx; Bz = Bx;
% Calculation of magnetic field B: sum over each current element
for c = 1 : N
rx = xxP - xC(c);
rz = zC(c);
ry = yyP - yC(c);
r = sqrt(rx.^2 + ry.^2 + rz.^2);
r3 = r.^3;
Bx = Bx + Ly_N(c).*rz./r3;
By = By - Lx_N(c).*rz./r3;
Bz = Bz + Ly_N(c).*rx./r3;
end
for c = N+1 : N+M
rx = xxP - xC(c);
rz = zC(c);
ry = yyP - yC(c);
r = sqrt(rx.^2 + ry.^2 + rz.^2);
r3 = r.^3;
Bx = Bx + Ly_M(c-N).*rz./r3;
By = By - Lx_M(c-N).*rz./r3;
Bz = Bz + Ly_M(c-N).*rx./r3;
end
B = sqrt(Bx.^2 + By.^2 + Bz.^2);
B = B./max(max(B)); % normalize B to 1
% GRAPHICS
figure(1);
pcolor(xxP,yyP,B.^0.1);
colormap(jet)
shading interp;
axis equal;
axis([-xPmax xPmax -yPmax yPmax]);
xlabel('x coordinate');ylabel('y coordinate');
set(gca,'XTick',[-xPmax:xPmax/10:xPmax]);
set(gca,'YTick',[-yPmax:yPmax/10:yPmax]);
%rectangle('Position',[-1 0 2 0.2],'FaceColor','k');
title('Magnetic field from racetrack coil')
colorbar
