Improvement on parameter identification of modified Jiles-Atherton model for iron loss calculation

Abstract The physical behaviour of a magnetic material can be characterized by Jiles-Atherton (J-A) model where some model parameters are generally identified by optimization techniques. For identification of model parameters using optimization techniques, an error criterion based on the error between the measured and calculated magnetic flux density (B) or magnetic field strength (H) is commonly considered where the relative error in the calculation of iron loss is ignored. Consequently, the calculated iron loss from B-H loop sometimes highly differs from its experimental value. In this paper, the error criteria for J-A model’s parameter identification are designed as the combination of the relative iron loss error criterion and the general existing error criterion. Furthermore, a modified J-A model is proposed to improve the agreement between experimental and calculated results especially at the low magnetic induction levels by introducing a scaling factor in the anhysteretic magnetization. The proposed modified J-A model and the effectiveness of the error criteria for its parameter identification are tested by comparing calculated results with the experimental results as well as recently works in the literature.