Landau–Lifshitz–Bloch simulations of the magnetocaloric effect in continuous ferromagnetic–paramagnetic transitions
[EN]The usefulness of modeling magnetocaloric materials expands from the understanding of their behavior to the prediction of new materials, playing a fundamental role in the optimization of their performance. In contrast with other areas of magnetic materials research, micromagnetic simulations of...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2026 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universidad de Salamanca (USAL) |
| Repositorio: | GREDOS. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Salamanca |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:gredos.usal.es:10366/170810 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://hdl.handle.net/10366/170810 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Micromagnetic simulations Landau–Lifshitz–Bloch equation Magnetocaloric effect and materials Second-order magnetic transitions |
| Sumario: | [EN]The usefulness of modeling magnetocaloric materials expands from the understanding of their behavior to the prediction of new materials, playing a fundamental role in the optimization of their performance. In contrast with other areas of magnetic materials research, micromagnetic simulations of magnetocaloric materials are scarce due to the difficulty of modeling the material in the vicinity of the transition. To solve this limitation, we propose to use the Landau–Lifshitz–Bloch micromagnetic simulations to study the magnetocaloric effect associated with a second-order ferromagnetic↔paramagnetic transition. Following our proposed methodology and considering material parameters in a mean-field framework, we obtain reliable isothermal entropy change curves for monocrystalline and polycrystalline configurations, where we consider different anisotropic contributions. The robustness of the method was evaluated, yielding results that agreed with previous experimental and theoretical observations. Our study shows that micromagnetic simulations are a powerful tool for analyzing second-order magnetocaloric materials with complex microstructures. |
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