... modelling Heat treatment Induction surface hardening Magnetic permeability Induction surface hardening is a kind of heat treatment characterized by rapid heating of the workpiece by induction and then immediately cooling it by surface spraying or by merging the full body into a container...

... potential is piecewise constant inside each element of the discretisation. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008 Eddy currents Electromagnetic induction Magnetic fields Heat treatment Heat treatment provides an efficient way to manipulate macro scale properties of metals...

... and a system of ordinary differential equations for the volume fractions of the occuring phases. The model is applied to simulate surface heat treatments, which play an important role in the manufacturing of steel. The numerical methods are implemented with tools from pdelib, a collection of modular algorithms...