Abstract
Calculation of the interaction magnetic force between two ring permanent magnets with radial magnetization is presented in the paper. Such configuration corresponds to a radial passive magnetic bearing. The simple and fast analytical approach is used for this calculation based on magnetization charges and discretization technique. The results for interaction magnetic force obtained using proposed approach are compared with finite element method(FEM). The advantage of presented approach is its simplicity and time efficiency since only complete elliptic integrals of the second kind are used and other additional integrations are avoided in this calculation.