TY - JOUR AB - Purpose The purpose of this paper is the numerical verification of the linearization coefficient approposed by Turowski for the calculation of the electromagnetic field distribution and therefore the stray losses inside magnetically saturated solid steel conductors.Design/methodology/approach The numerical verification is performed on a case study consisting of a simple current conductor sheet parallel to a solid steel plate. Numerical computations are compared with analytical calculations with and without inclusion of the semi-empirical Turowski’s coefficient.Findings Results confirm a good agreement between numerical values for steel with non-linear permeability and analytical ones applying Turowski’s coefficient. This is particularly powerful in the case of analytical calculation of the magnetic surface impedance (SI) to increase precision when hybrid methods are used. The concept of SI enables the establishment of hybrid approaches for the calculation of stray losses, combining the numerical methods (finite difference method, finite element method (FEM), etc.) together with the analytical formulation, gaining from the advantages of both methods.Originality/value Previous numerical analysis was focused on the field dependence on time for several depths inside solid steel. The aim of this paper is to investigate the electromagnetic field distribution inside solid steel on a representative FEM model and verify how the linearization coefficient approposed by Turowski works. VL - 35 IS - 6 SN - 0332-1649 DO - 10.1108/COMPEL-02-2016-0054 UR - https://doi.org/10.1108/COMPEL-02-2016-0054 AU - Rodriguez-Ignacio Hugo AU - Lopez-Fernandez Xose M. PY - 2016 Y1 - 2016/01/01 TI - Numerical verification of Turowski’s coefficient T2 - COMPEL - The international journal for computation and mathematics in electrical and electronic engineering PB - Emerald Group Publishing Limited SP - 1965 EP - 1972 Y2 - 2024/04/25 ER -