Numeric Modeling of the Electromagnetic Induction Heating Process for Thermal Treatments

Abstract

One of the current technologies ofelectromagnetic processing of materials proposed forstudy in this work is hardening through inductiveheating. During the past years, there have beendeveloped modeling methods of the hardeningprocesses in which the numeric analysis of theelectromagnetic field is joined with the analysis ofthermal diffusion. The hardening solutions of ascrew with ball are analyzed with the help of theFLUX program package, resulting the hardeningtime and the distributions corresponding to theelectromagnetic and thermal fields.

Keywords

• finite element method
• electromagnetic induction
• electromagnetic field
• thermal field