Electrification

Meeting the world's growing transportation needs and green mobility demands is a difficult
undertaking. Altair’s impactful electrification solutions are addressing this challenge by helping
companies develop energy-efficient systems, like electric powertrains that release fewer carbon
emissions into the atmosphere, and sustainable electric road-vehicles, watercraft, heavy-
machinery, and rail systems.

Companies are leveraging Altair's connected capabilities to lightweight designs, optimize

integrated system performance, reach sustainability and efficiency goals, and drive e-mobility
advancements faster.
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Designing a Sustainable
Future
Businesses that successfully and rapidly meet
consumer demand for sustainable electrification
innovations are poised to gain significant market
share, but innovation requires the right technology
partners with the right design, simulation, data
analytics, artificial intelligence (AI), and high-
performance computing (HPC) offerings.
Altair’s electrification solutions accelerate
lightweighting, enhance energy efficiency, and
optimize systems to lessen environmental impacts,
thereby enabling companies to meet their
sustainability goals and consumer demands for
heavy-equipment, aircraft, auto, rail, and other e-
transportation solutions.
In addition, e-Mobility solutions must connect and
interact with their surroundings without interfering
Accelerate Electrification
Faster Processes
Altair electrification solutions and streamlined
product validation processes give users holistic
insight for better decision-making between
technical, safety, and efficiency tradeoffs, enabling
teams to rapidly optimize and develop complex,
connected architectures in e-powered systems.
Faster Turnaround
Global access to connected multiphysics
capabilities and data through Altair One™ enables
frictionless collaboration and turnaround. Access
to repeatable, simulation-driven design processes
shortens development cycles, improves efficiency,
and supports production at a mass-market scale.
On-demand HPC offers secure, scalable simulation
capabilities during peak demand. Flexible cloud-
based HPC also supports multi-disciplinary
with in-vehicle electrical systems (EMC/EMI).
Altair® Feko® high-frequency electromagnetics
software and wave propagation tools help vehicle
designers perform virtual drive testing and
consider a full array of environmental obstacles
using either dedicated short-range
communications (DSRC) or 5G wireless signals.
Efficient Powertrains
OEMs producing e-Mobility products must address
battery range, drivetrain efficiency, and charging
times. Getting the design right for these aspects is
vital to successful product development and
requires rapid exploration of higher system
voltages, innovative cooling implementations,
efficient power conversion, optimized vehicle
aerodynamics and vehicle-weight reduction to
optimization studies on multiple programs at once,
which reduces development costs and risk.
Affordable Electric Solutions
Electrified mobility lifecycles and maintenance
differ from their internal combustion engine (ICE)
counterparts. Companies need technology
partners that understand the difference and offer
future-focused solutions that include digital twin
capabilities that can adapt to new requirements
without increasing costs.
Whether adapting existing workflows or deploying
new processes for today’s demands, Altair's
ensure transmission and distribution systems can
handle the increased load from electrification.
Altair’s electrification and multiphysics workflows
provide a digitally connected end-to-end
simulation process for designing efficient
powertrains that balance performance, cost, and
weight requirements.
electrification solutions meet you where you are
and evolve with your company to bring product
innovations to market faster and more cost
effectively. Our flexible Altair Units licensing
system saves companies 30-50% over traditional
licensing methods and enables seamless
computing and collaboration across engineering
teams.

ACCELERATE E-
MOBILITY

Holistic End-
to-End
Electrification
Altair's holistic workflows
accelerate electrification
innovation. Simulation and
data-driven design
uncovers insights and
 informs decision making
early in the design cycle.

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Battery Design for Vehicle

Electrification

Developing efficient, high-capacity, safe and

affordable batteries is crucial for the successful
adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) and renewable
energy systems.

Lighter vehicles require less battery power to

accelerate and maintain speed, allowing a single
charge to go further. Generative design empowers
engineers to remove material while maintaining
strength and stiffness properties required for safety
and comfort. Thermal management is also a key
aspect of the design. Implementing the right
cooling strategy ensures optimized charging times
and longer battery life.
Sound battery pack design is critical for safety, and
insights from simulated vehicle-crash, road-debris-
impact, and shock events need to align with vehicle
program timelines. Altair’s investment in vehicle
safety, in collaboration with leaders in vehicle
battery research, enables the efficient and accurate
mechanical failure analysis to prevent battery fires.

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Electric Motor Simulation

Developing innovative e-motor designs requires proven

multiphysics and optimization solutions. To meet these
modern design challenges, Altair® e-Motor Director™
seamlessly combines electromagnetics, noise, harshness,
and vibration (NVH), and computational fluid dynamics
(CFD) simulation capabilities in a single working
environment. Here specialists can store best-practices for
reuse by non-specialists for faster product development.

Leveraging rapid design exploration and feasibility

ranking during the concept phase informs optimal
downstream e-propulsion decisions. Engineering teams
can use Altair® FluxMotor® to make performance
comparisons and determine the best e-motor topologies
while considering constraints like efficiency, temperature,
weight, compactness, and cost. Detailed e-motor
electromagnetics coupled with thermal simulation with
Altair CFD™ helps teams design high-power-density
electric drives. Altair® OptiStruct® offers insight into
sound quality and vibration influenced by e-propulsion
systems.

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Power Electronics and E-

Motor Drive Simulation

Efficient and reliable power management is crucial

to a vehicle’s performance. This includes power
conversion and distribution to ensure that
electrified systems inside drivetrains designed for
automotive electrification, aircraft electrification,
and other e-mobility systems operate safely.

Simulating multi-physics e-mobility systems within

a single, connected solution environment helps
electrification innovators better understand the
impacts of drivetrains, e-motors, and battery
functionality on system performance. With over 25
years of expertise packed inside its power
electronics system technology, Altair® PSIM™
provides a complete workflow from concept design
to hardware implementation for power converters
and motor drives. With valuable insights into power
losses, cooling requirements, conducted
electromagnetic interference (EMI), and converter
characteristics, companies can observe and
optimize complex interactions to ensure their next-
generation products exceed customer demands for
reliable, efficient, and cost-effective e-mobility.

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Vehicle Electrification: Systems

and Dynamics

Incorporating electrified systems into existing product

designs can be complex, especially when maintaining or
improving dynamics that include multiple and
interconnected systems. Altair's model-based
development solutions support multiple simulation
models of varying fidelity to accelerate design delivery
while handling different levels of mechatronic system
complexity. Using models that range from 0D to 3D at
various stages along the electric machine, power
converter, and control-strategy design development
enables companies to adapt and improve control
algorithms in a continuous, connected development
process. And leveraging integrated 1D and 3D models in
sequential or concurrent simulations helps companies
assess product operation to boost design efficiency.
Altair's multidisciplinary system simulation solutions can
predict the combined impact of various parameters on
electromagnetic, thermal, and structural performance to
produce optimized designs.

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Lightweighting and
Electrification

Lighter products require less energy and power for

all possible running conditions, leading to longer
battery life and extended range compared to
heavier products. A lighter battery pack increases
range and makes secondary-effect weight-savings
possible. For example, less battery power results in
a scaled-down battery pack, which puts a lighter
load on the product's structure and contributes to
further weight savings. These lightweighting
tendencies affect vehicle structural safety, NVH,
and driving dynamics. Companies can leverage
Altair’s generative design and multi-body dynamics
solutions to discover their product design’s weight-
saving potential and its influence on the driver’s
experience.

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