Simceneter MAGNET
Low frequency Electromagnetic Solution
Electrification is one of the major pillars of industrial innovation
The diverse and increasingly significant role of electromagnetics in product development and design brings new challenges. To address these challenges more advanced and powerful solutions are required which can quickly and accurately solve maxwells equation and simulate a variety of fields. Simcenter FEA based solutions allow you to explore designs to meet performance, and make timely-decisions in product development, reducing the number of physical prototypes. The flexibility in our solutions, which includes finite element static, time-harmonic, transient solvers with the motion for any number of components, permits the design and analysis of electromagnetic and electromechanical devices of any complexity.
Simceneter MAGNET….
As systems become more electrified, the insight of simulations on the performance of electromagnetic devices such as motors, generators, MRI, sensors, transformers, actuators, solenoids, or any component with permanent magnets or coils, is priceless. Simcenter MAGNET offers the engineer the opportunity to replicate laboratory experiments for their device with virtual prototyping. MAGNET uses the finite element technique for an accurate and quick solution of Maxwell’s equations. It can simulate different types of electromagnetic and electric fields in both 2D and 3D.
Why Simceneter MAGNET ?
The accuracy of low-frequency electromagnetic simulations is based on material modeling being able to account for nonlinearities, temperature dependencies, demagnetization of permanent magnets, anisotropic effects and hysteresis. Simcenter MAGNET comprising of more than 200 materials of various electrical steels, permanent magnets, insulating materials, cooling fluids, etc.
In addition to linear and rotational motion, Simcenter MAGNET supports arbitrary 6 degrees of freedom motion and multiple moving components. Therefore, it allows the analysis of complex motion such as in integrated actuation systems with multiple moving components, magnetic gears and bearings, and magnetic levitation.
When dealing with large problems such as power transformers, there is a need to reduce the solution time. These models have thin components relative to the model's size, which strains the mesher and results in a large model in terms of field nodes. Conventionally, these can be addressed by use of structured mesh such as extruded mesh and mesh layers. But this is not enough. Simcenter MAGNET offers p & h mesh refinement and unary boundary conditions, in addition to the periodic boundary conditions for partial models. These features permit fast initial analysis in 3D problems, an increase in accuracy in the zone of interest and relaxing it elsewhere to reduce the problem size. Therefore, in Simcenter MAGNET, by reducing the field nodes, the solution time is reduced, hence productivity is increased
The loading, permanent magnet & insulation properties and service life of electromagnetic devices are dependent on temperature. Therefore, an EM analysis is hardly enough especially with more integration and higher power densities that reduce the thermal mass. Thermal analysis is also important in the mapping of temperature hotspots, demagnetization analysis, and designing for elevated temperatures. Simcenter MAGNET’s coupled EM-thermal automatically reuses the mesh, materials, and solutions, which saves setup and solution times. One can also leverage partial models to reduce the solution time.
