A Darwin Time Domain Scheme for the Simulation of Transient Quasistatic Electromagnetic Fields Including Resistive, Capacitive and Inductive Effects

Abstract

The Darwin field model addresses an approximation to Maxwell's equations where radiation effects are neglected. It allows to describe general quasistatic electromagnetic field phenomena including inductive, resistive and capacitive effects. A Darwin formulation based on the Darwin-Amp\`ere equation and the implicitly included Darwin-continuity equation yields a non-symmetric and ill-conditioned algebraic systems of equations received from applying a geometric spatial discretization scheme and the implicit backward differentiation time integration method. A two-step solution scheme is presented where the underlying block-Gauss-Seidel method is shown to change the initially chosen gauge condition and the resulting scheme only requires to solve a weakly coupled electro-quasistatic and a magneto-quasistatic discrete field formulation consecutively in each time step. Results of numerical test problems validate the chosen approach.