Dear Comsol Comunnity,
I have been using Comsol at my University a few times so my experience in this software is only scientific and quite general. Now I have a problem which is quite complex. Here is the potential problem abstract. I want to simulate the skin effect in tinned coil or coil covered by other material like kanthal, lead, nickel and constantan. This is the air coil 20mm diameter with 14 turns with 4mm separation between them covered by around 100 um to 300um different material. It should have estimated inducted around 1 or 2uH (the exact value is doesn't matter for now). I want to do frequency sweeping from single MHz to tens of GHz for chosen material and its thickness. For example copper cover by tin 100umthickness -> frequency sweeping, same 150um, kanthal 100um then 150um etc etc. My goal is to chose the configuration where the surface current density norm (A/m) is highest. Thing is that I'm not sure how to cover the copper with other material. What I have done is STP file with example coil model I wanted to examine (attachment). I have add the boundaries for all of the coil excluding the boundries that I want to define as Coil input and output in Coil geometry analysis. My question are: 1. Whether my thinking is correct? 2. If yes (1) is this the only way to make the material coverage? 3. If my thinking is correct: a) Whether all of the boundaries which covers the copper should be defined in Coil explicit additionally or whether they should be defined as second coil and mutual inductance between them ? b) How to generate the Mesh for that kind of problem ? 4. Maybe there are special material library for that kind of problems ?
Best regards, Krzysztof Szybinski