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Ideal inductor
Electrical / Passive Components
This component provides one or multiple ideal inductors between its two electrical terminals. If the component is vectorized, a magnetic coupling can be specified between the internal inductors. Inductors may be switched in series only if their momentary currents are equal.
In a vectorized component, all internal inductors have the same inductance if the
parameter is a scalar. To specify the inductances individually use a vector
. The length
of the vector determines the component's width:
In order to model a magnetic coupling between the internal inductors enter a
square matrix. The size of the matrix corresponds to the width of the component.
is the self inductance of the internal inductor and
the mutual inductance:
The inductance matrix must be invertible, i.e. it may not be singular. A singular inductance matrix results for example when two or more inductors are ideally coupled. To model this, use an inductor in parallel with an Ideal Transformer.
The relationship between the coupling factor and the mutual inductance
is