TY - JOUR AB - To circumvent the high computational costs of modelling each lamination to compute the eddy current distribution in three dimensions in conducting laminations, a simple method has been developed. The laminar nature of the eddy currents due to the magnetic leakage field has been considered by applying an anisotropic conductivity with zero or very low value in the direction normal to the laminations. This yields an overall field distribution serving as basis. In a second step, the much smaller eddy current loops caused by the main magnetic flux parallel to the laminations have been taken into consideration by a one‐dimensional analytical model. Nonlinearity is neglected. VL - 18 IS - 3 SN - 0332-1649 DO - 10.1108/03321649910275170 UR - https://doi.org/10.1108/03321649910275170 AU - Hollaus Karl AU - Bíró Oszkár PY - 1999 Y1 - 1999/01/01 TI - Estimation of 3‐D eddy currents in conducting laminations by an anisotropic conductivity and a 1‐D analytical model T2 - COMPEL - The international journal for computation and mathematics in electrical and electronic engineering PB - MCB UP Ltd SP - 494 EP - 503 Y2 - 2024/04/25 ER -