State of the Art on Modelling Inductive Power Transfer for EVs

Abstract

The increasing diffusion of Electric Vehicles (EVs) is driving academic and institutional research towards exploring different possible ways of charging vehicles in a fast, reliable and safe way. For this reason, wireless power transfer systems have recently been receiving a lot of attention in the academic literature.This paper reviews the main analytic and computational tools that are typically used to perform analyses in the context of inductive power transfer systems. First, a selection of analytic models and numerical methods is analysed in detail, with a focus on the most widely used tools as well as some recent innovations.