| Abstract: | The eddy currents induced in a thin conducting sheet by a sinusoidally varying primary magnetic field are investigated in the low-frequency limit when the depth of penetration of the primary field is much greater than the thickness of the sheet. A perturbation scheme in terms of the small parameter, δ, which is the ratio of the thickness of the sheet to the length scale of the primary field is initiated. The zero-order terms in δ give the familiar results that were first obtained by Maxwell. The first-order terms in δ depend on the tangential as well as the normal component of the primary field and give eddy-current distributions that vary quadratically across the sheet. The boundary conditions that determine the accompanying secondary magnetic field are derived. Detailed results are given when the primary field is that due to a dipole. |
