Fields in electrical devices containing soft nonlinear magnetic materials

The Colorado method for the solution of the non-linear form of Laplace's, Poisson's, and the diffusion partial differential equations is explained. Various boundary conditions can be satisfied. The transformation of the partial differential equation into a large set of finite difference equations is given. The discretization is based on a grid system consisting of two sets of orthogonal grid lines. The resulting meshes are nonuniform. Successive line overrelaxation method is used for the solution of the nonlinear equations in two steps. For the improvement of convergence, two methods of acceleration of convergence are described.