Multirate Coupling of Controlled Rectifier and Non-Linear Finite Element Model Based on Waveform Relaxation Method

To study a multirate system, each subsystem can be solved by a dedicated software with respect to the physical problem and the time constant. Then, the problem is the coupling of the solutions of the subsystems. The waveform relaxation method (WRM) seems to be an interesting solution for the coupling, but until now, it has been mainly applied on academic examples. In this paper, the WRM is applied to perform the coupling of a controlled rectifier and a non-linear finite element model of a transformer.