RE: eddy current with secondary coil

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Original poster: Thomas <tom-at-pwrcom-dot-com.au> 

 > Original poster: "Antonio Carlos M. de Queiroz"
 > <acmq-at-compuland-dot-com.br>
 >
 > Tesla list wrote:
 >
 >  > Original poster: Ed Phillips <evp-at-pacbell-dot-net>
 >
 >  >         Thanks for the reply.  Has anyone ever worked out
 > the complete
 > solution
 >  > including effect of capacitance on current distribution?  Are the
 >  > effects significant enough to be considered in normal design work?
 >
 > Very probably, no. The "exact" solution, if someone reached it,
 > is almost surely too complicated to be more useful than the results of
 > numerical simulations with finite elements. Papers dealing more
 > or less well with the subject can be found since 100 years
 > ago or more.
 > Paul Nicholson was doing something about the problem.
 >

Would the (expensive) finite element analysis programs that are available be
any use for this?

(I know next to nothing about these software tools, but they look neat in
the addvertisements).

Tom L.