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Electromagnetic Field Simulation for High-Performance Electromechanical Design

Key Features

    • Low-frequency electromagnetic field simulation and analysis using FEM for 3D/2D structures
      • Transient - nonlinear analysis with:
        • Motion-rotation, translational, non-cylindrical rotation
        • External circuit coupling
        • Permanent magnet demagnetization analysis
        • Core loss computation
        • Lamination modeling for 3D
      • AC Electromagnetic-Analysis of devices influenced by skin/ proximity effects, eddy/displacement currents with automated frequency dependent model generation
      • Magnetostatic-Nonlinear analysis with automated equivalent circuit model generation
      • Electric Field-Transient, Electrostatic/Current flow analysis with automated equivalent circuit model generation

    • Display of data/visualization of results
      • Field visualization and animations (shaded, contour and vector plots)
      • Mesh visualization (full, partial)
      • Current, induced voltage, flux linkage
      • Power loss, stored energy
      • Core loss, eddy, excess, hysteresis loss (including the minor loop effects)
      • Impedance, inductance, capacitance
      • Force, torque
      • Custom reports of user-defined solution data

    • Performance and integration

    • Integrated 3D modeler featuring ACIS v19.0 and MFC technology
      • Standard primitives and multi-sweep functions
      • Boolean operations: union, subtraction, intersection
      • Direct import of SAT and DXF files
      • AnsoftLinks™ for import of STEP, IGES, ACIS, Parasolid, ANSYS Mechanical, Nastron, Pro/ENGINEER®, AutoCAD®, CATIA, and Siemens NX™

    • Automatic, adaptive mesh technology
      • Fault-tolerant meshing algorithms
      • Mesh-generation feedback
      • GUI performs validation and integrity checks
      • Software identifies artifacts within the imported geometry
      • Mesh-based model resolution

    • Versatile material manager and material types
      • User, group and system libraries
      • Linear, nonlinear anisotropic materials
      • Material assignment by coordinate type: cartesian, cylindrical or spherical
      • Permanent Magnet Material Libraries:*
        • Shin Etsu
        • Vacuumschmelze

        *Current customers may download the libraries from OTS

    • Integrated Optimetrics
      • Geometry and material parameterization
      • Optimization, sensitivity and statistical analysis