Post on 14-Apr-2017
Motor-CAD Links to ANSYS Software
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• All the information required to make a calculation in Maxwell is passed from Motor-CAD
• Geometry, material properties, excitations and boundary conditions are automatically set-up
Motor-CAD EMag – Maxwell Links
Motor-CAD
Maxwell VBS Script
Maxwell
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• Electromagnetic data can be imported from Maxwell to create efficiency maps and calculate performance over duty cycles.
Model Created in Maxwell Maxwell Driven by Motor-LAB
Efficiency Mapin Motor-LAB &Define Duty Cycle
Duty Cycle Loss DataSent to Motor-CAD
Resulting Thermal Transientin Motor-CAD
Motor-CAD Lab: Links to Maxwell
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• Motor-CAD 3D Geometry exported into ANSYS workbench through Design Modeler
Motor-CAD 3D Links to ANSYS Tools
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• Motor-CAD and Fluent CFD complement each other
• In Motor-CAD it is fast to create models and solve
• CFD is more time consuming to construct models and make calculations
• Useful to filter designs using Motor-CAD and do CFD on final candidate
• Then use results to calibrate Motor-CAD convection & flow formulations
• Assistance in CFD model setup using links to Motor-CAD being developed
• Speed up the creation of CFD models
Motor-CAD and Fluent
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Detailed flow modelling using Fluent CFD can be used validate/calibrate the convective cooling around the end-windings due to air movement induced by rotation
Motor-CAD/Fluent Calibration Example
Fluent Correlation for Convection
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Path Lines Static Pressure
• Fluent CFD can be used to study the water jacket heat transfer & pressure drop in great detail and used to validate/calibrate the correlation models used in Motor-CAD
Motor-CAD/Fluent Calibration Example
Temperature Profile
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Automatically pass the thermal resistance network from Motor-CAD to Icepak for the main body of the machine
Solve the main body of the motor in Icepak as a thermal resistance network and the housing cooling system as a CFD problem
Allows extremely fast combined lumped circuit/CFD simulations times
Motor-CAD – Icepak Links
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Icepak
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ANSYS CFD
Maxwell 2-D/3-DElectromagnetics
SimplorerSystem Design
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Automated links to ANSYS multi-physics environment being developed to simplify and speed up sophisticated design calculations
Magnetic and Thermal Sizing
Integration with ANSYS Software for Magnetic and Thermal Sizing