Calculation of the Vector Potential of the Magnetic Field in a Nonconductive Medium during Floating Zone Melting
摘要
The vector potential of the magnetic field in a region between the induction coil, upper part of the floating zone, liquid film, feed rod, and protective shield has been determined in an axisymmetric problem of floating zone melting of a silicon cylinder 5–10 cm in radius. The boundary condition at infinity has been brought to some semicircle connecting the feed rod and protective shield and located at a sufficiently large distance from the coil, which has made it possible the problem to be treated in a finite region. This region has been conformally mapped onto a rectangle, in which the problem of determining the magnetic field vector potential has been solved. The problem reduces to solving Laplace’s equation for the only nonzero component of the vector potential