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Ansys Maxwell Brochure 14.0
Ansys Maxwell Brochure 14.0
Maxwell
DC permanent magnet
motor solved by Maxwell
with ANSYS RMxprt
Whether you’re designing HEVs, MRIs or wind Intuitive for Quick, Accurate Solutions
turbine generators (as system, subsystem
or component), your product is only as good Automatic Adaptive Meshing
as the field-solver technology you choose. Using Maxwell’s automatic adaptive meshing
Electromagnetic and electromechanical device techniques, you specify only geometry, material
designers face increasing pressure to produce properties and desired output. The proven
smaller, less expensive, and more reliable and technology eliminates the complexity of building
efficient components. Best practices suggest more and refining a finite element mesh, making
simulation and fewer prototypes; ANSYS Maxwell® advanced numerical analysis practical for all
industry-leading field-simulation software delivers levels of your organization. The meshing process
the power and capability to support your EM uses a highly robust volumetric technique. A
simulation design needs. multi-threading capability reduces the amount of
memory used, speeding simulation.
Power loss of transformer Maxwell includes 3-D/2-D magnetic transient,
solved with Maxwell, AC electromagnetic, magnetostatic, electrostatic, Dynamic Link with ANSYS Simplorer
then transferred to DC conduction and electric transient solvers that A key Maxwell feature is the ability to generate
ANSYS MechanicalTM accurately solve for field parameters including high-fidelity, reduced-order models for use
to calculate thermal force, torque, capacitance, inductance, resistance in ANSYS Simplorer® multi-domain system
distribution and impedance. You can automatically generate simulation software. Using this powerful
nonlinear equivalent circuits and state-space electromagnetics-based design flow, you
models from field parameters that may be further can combine complex circuits with accurate
used in system and circuit simulation analyses. component models to design complete high-
This offers the ability to perform a comprehensive performance electromechanical, mechatronic
analysis of the component with its drive circuit, and power electronic systems.
loads and other system parameters.
Transient with Motion
Maxwell’s magnetic transient solver with rigid
body motion, circuit coupling and induced-
eddy currents calculation uses state-of-the-art
algorithms and a volumetric meshing technique
— features that efficiently and accurately
solve computationally intense time domain
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simulations, such as electric motors.
ANSYS Simplorer
ANSYS WorkbenchTM
ANSYS Maxwell
AnsoftLinksTM
ANSYS OptimetricsTM
You can leverage Maxwell’s accurate field calculations into circuit, system and Maxwell parametrically Maxwell’s eddy-current
multiphysics simulations. solves force vs. actuator solver employs high-
position for more robust order vector elements
design and analysis. to accurately compute
currents.
Solving Large Projects Faster “Simulation made it possible to achieve this challenging performance goal in
Maxwell features 64-bit user interface and less than half the time that would have been required using conventional build-
solvers, enabling large-scale simulation without and-test methods. The simulation predictions correlated well with physical
compromising accuracy or geometric details. testing, providing confidence that Indar can use simulation to optimize its
Our technology incorporates multiprocessing products to deliver high performance under the most demanding conditions.”
Jon Vaquerizo
at every stage of the process; innovative solver
Project Manager
techniques bring incomparable speed. The end Indar Electric
result is higher productivity.
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R&D teams use ANSYS Maxwell to accurately design all types of industrial devices,
including motors, actuators, transformers, MRI coils, sensors and power supplies.
These components are being deployed in new and diverse applications such as
automotive hybrid–electric drivetrains, aerospace fault-tolerant electric power
systems, alternative-energy power-generation systems, and medical devices.
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RMxprt delivers fast access to important design parameters in an easy-to-use report generator. Design sheets list all relevant input
and calculated parameters; graphics display waveforms include current, voltage, torque and back EMF, and detailed winding layout.
In addition, RMxprt outputs Excel-format design sheets based on the user-defined template.
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Axial magnetic field distribution on axial permanent
magnet machine
comprehensive range of solutions gives you access creating parameters for a model’s dimensions and
to virtually any field of engineering simulation that material constants. Optimetrics then varies these
a design process requires. Organizations around parameters, adjusting geometry and materials
the world trust ANSYS to help them realize their to achieve desired user-specified performance
Maxwell-simulated product promises. goals. Leveraging previously computed
electromagnetic parametric simulation results within its optimizer,
field distribution on Multiphysics Couplings Optimetrics helps you to understand device
transformer terminals characteristics over a large design space.
Maxwell is available within ANSYS Workbench, the It also leads to the best design performance that
framework for our advanced suite. An innovative is least sensitive to manufacturing tolerances.
project schematic ties together the entire When coupled with ANSYS DesignXplorer™,
simulation process, guiding the user through Optimetrics offers design of experiments, surface
complex multiphysics analyses with drag-and- response techniques, six sigma and multiphysics
drop simplicity. Workbench shares geometry, system-level optimization.
geometry parameters and material properties
with the ANSYS product portfolio, including High-Performance Computing
Maxwell, to solve electromagnetic–thermal–
Maxwell coupled with deformation problems. For example, in a structural Maxwell leverages high-powered computers
ANSYS Fluent to determine mechanics coupling, the two-way stress link in with multiprocessing and distributed analysis
thermal performance of ANSYS Mechanical updates the deformed Maxwell options for fast turnaround of your largest
induction machine mesh. You also can couple Maxwell to ANSYS designs. Multiprocessing solves models on a
CFD software to accurately explore cooling of single machine with multiple processors or
electromechanical devices. multiple cores that share RAM. Distributed solve
distributes parametric studies across a number of
machines to expedite total simulation time.
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ANSYS Maxwell
3-D ACIS-based
Optimetrics adds Simplorer for high-
solid modeling for Automatic Automatic extrac-
parametric, performance system
electromagnetic adaptive meshing tion of equivalent
optimization, design, modeling,
analysis technique circuit and state-
sensitivity and analysis and
Transient space models from
statistical optimization
with motion electromagnetic
analyses.
and quasi- field results for
static solvers use in circuit and
RMxprt for electric system simulation
machine geometry
creation
AnsoftLinks for ANSYS Workbench To help ensure a High-performance Good design starts ANSYS EKM™
MCAD facilitates is the framework successful product, computing enables with identifying addresses critical
the transfer of 3-D for the industry’s R&D teams must creation of large, the relationship issues associated
geometry from broadest and accurately predict high-fidelity models between perfor- with simulation
mechanical CAD deepest suite of how complex that yield accurate mance and design data, including
(MCAD) packages advanced products will and detailed variables. ANSYS backup and
using common file engineering behave in a real- insight. ANSYS DesignXplorer archival,
formats, such as simulation tech- world environment. offers scalable enables engineers traceability
IGES, STEP, ACIS, nology. It delivers The ANSYS suite solutions and to perform design and audit trail,
Parasolid®, ANSYS unprecedented captures the partners with of experiments process automa-
Mechanical™, productivity, interaction of hardware vendors (DOE) analyses, tion, collaboration
NASTRAN®, enabling multiple physics: to ensure that you investigate and capture of
Pro/ENGINEER®, Simulation-Driven structural, fluid get the power and response surfaces, engineering
AutoCAD®, CATIA® Product dynamics, electro- speed you need. and analyze input expertise, and IP
and Siemens NX™. Development™. mechanics and constraints in protection.
systems interac- pursuit of optimal
tions. A single, design candidates.
unified platform
harnesses the
core physics and
enables their
interoperability.
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