This paper discusses engineering-oriented magnetic material property modeling, fully taking into account the requirements posed by industrial applications, involving the magnetic properties measured under both standard and extreme conditions, the combination of material modeling and numerical analysis, and the validation of modeling and simulation. It presents some application notes on typical magnetic measurement and modeling, concerning the Epstein combination and data weighted processing method, the additional iron loss caused by 3-D excitation, the examination of magnetic flux inside laminated stacks, and the effect of both B-H curves and solvers on loss analysis, based on the authors’ recent research. In addition, future research projects on the determination and application of the magnetic material properties, under practical working conditions, are proposed.
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