I have downloaded the the EPCOS "ferrite magnetic design tool", and this tool does not appear to be at all useful in analysing flyback designs.
I have a CCM flyback design using an ETD44 (1mm gap) core (NP/NS=2), LP=177u, Vin=70VDC, vout=24V, IOUT = 5A (peak for 100ms intervals)
and the tool doesnt seem to help much.
It tells me what the RAC/RDC value is, but i cannot understand how it can possibly have worked this out when it did
not ask me for the peak and pedestal currents of the primary trapezoidal waveform?
Also, it asks me for a "B(mT)" value and then calcualtes what it says is a core loss figure in kW/m^3.
This is surely incorrect, since again the peak and pedestal flux values would have to be known, as well as the operating frequency,
in order to calculate the core loss in the flyback ferrite.
I read the manual aswell but it offers no enlightenment......i am wondering if this tool is simply for
sinusoidal waveforms only?
EPCOS ferrite magnetic design tool
https://en.tdk.eu/tdk-en/180490/design-support/design-tools/ferrites/ferrite-magnetic-design-tool
The databooks are equally unhelpful in working out core losses in flyback cores....they simply seem to
only address the situation of sinusoidal waveforms, which is totally unhelpful when you have unipolar
trapezoidal waveforms as in the flyback SMPS.