ABSTRACT
As mentioned above, induction heating is a complex combination of electromagnetic, heat transfer, and metallurgical phenomena. Heat transfer and electromagnetics are tightly interrelated because the physical properties of heat treated materials depend strongly on both magnetic field intensity and temperature. The metallurgical phenomenon is also a nonlinear function of temperature, heating intensity/cooling severity, chemical composition, and other factors. This chapter is devoted to a discussion of the electromagnetic and heat transfer phenomena and some other aspects relating to them.
