Optimum discretization of a physical Cauer circuit

A physical Cauer circuit is used to model skin effect in a conductor or eddy currents in a magnetic lamination. A physical lumped element model was chosen, because equivalent circuits are inconvenient for nonlinear materials such as magnetic materials. Approaches to discretize the used circuit are presented and compared. An iterative fitting technique is suggested that requires fewer elements and yields higher accuracy than an exponential discretization.