@smudge Flux leaks always occur, but when the air permeability is really low compared to that of the materials, it is negligible. In the attached picture, I have visualized it, by putting less arrows but of larger size, we can indeed act on their size and density, we see them better. The arrows indicate the intensity and direction of the B-field.
The "bounding box" that I also display is the space in which the simulation gives its results, and we can see that the space around the torus is also treated. In the hole of the toroid outside the magnet the field is weak, and outside, if we see nothing or almost nothing, it is completely negligible. This is not what can explain the force of lighting of LEDs in the experiment of Naudin. Note that the regularly spaced points just around the toroid, in the hole and outside, are not tiny field arrows but just the representation of the cross-sections of the conductors of the toroidal coil.
A variable flux must only cut the surface of the circuit to generate an EMF. Does it say that it must surround the circuit? I don't think so, now. Simply making a round trip at the input of the cylindrical coil, with the outgoing of different intensity than the return as seen in my answer #917, results in a net flux, not zero, and thus to the EMF across the cylindrical coil. If I'm not mistaken, it is indeed the flux in the toroid that generates the EMF, that's what this simulation taught me, and it changes my way of seeing and opens new perspectives...
But be careful, there is a trap: it is not the addition of the flux of the magnet with the one of the coil that creates the imbalance, but the modification of the permeability through which the variable flux evolves. If the permeability is fixed, and although the flux of the magnet always adds to the toroidal field on one side and subtracts from it on the other, no net flux will be recovered by the cylindrical coil. A static field cannot participate in any way in the induction, except indirectly, as we can see, if it modifies the medium which modifies the variable field round trip which creates induction.
What do you think about it ?
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