This paper provides a new expression of the magnetic co-energy for ferromagnetic materials. This expression is very well suited to integral methods but can as well be used as a post function for the Finite Elements Method (FEM). First the context of this work and the expression of the co-energy will be introduced. Second, two examples will be treated with the proposed method and the performances will be compared with the FEM.
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