Fast Algorithms for the Simulation of Electromagnetic Metal Forming

Abstract

Despite the comprehensive understanding of the modeling and numerical simulation of electromagnetic metal forming that has recently been gained, the simulation of real forming situations is still a challenging task due to the large computational resources required. A bottleneck is the computation of the electromagnetic fields, since 100.000 up to several million unknowns are required to represent the geometry of a typical forming device. The purpose of this article is to present new techniques to speed up the simulation of electromagnetic metal forming with particular emphasis on the computation of the electromagnetic fields. An acceleration of the electromagnetic field computation is a significant step towards a virtual design of electromagnetic forming processes.