What's new in Altair® FluxMotor® 2023
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Behind the intuitive user interface of FluxMotor®, you have the great power of Flux solver, ensuring all the accuracy you need through the finite element method. At the same time, the call to such solver needs to be optimized to keep simulation times very short.
With this new version of FluxMotor®, new improvements are brought to continue bringing you the best compromise between simulation time and accuracy.
REDUCING COMPUTATION TIMES BY USING DISTRIBUTED COMPUTATION
For some computations in FluxMotor®, many finite element computations need to be done, and in cases like performance mapping, those calculations are independent from each other. It means that they can be run in parallel instead of sequentially, which speeds up the overall process. It is an option that the user can now activate, just specifying the maximum number of cores to be used.
Speeding-up performance maps computations by using distributed mode
IMPROVING INDUCTION MACHINE EFFICIENCY MAPS
Efficiency maps for induction machines have been provided with the last version of FluxMotor®, allowing to characterize the behavior of induction machines with squirrel cage in the "Torque-Speed" area, considering scalar control command. With 2023, new input parameters can be used: the maximum Line-Line voltage together with the maximum line current and the maximum speed of the machine. With this new option, the speed of the base speed point is not defined by a user input (Rated power supply frequency) but deduced by the internal process of computation to maximize mechanical power.
New “U-I” option for induction machine efficiency maps.
ADDING ROTOR POSITION DEPENDENCY FOR IMPROVED ACCURACY
For permanent magnet synchronous machines and synchronous reluctance machines, the computation of efficiency maps can now consider the rotor position dependency which definitely brings more accurate results. This option is also available when generating tables (for 1,2 or 4 quadrants) to be used in system-level simulation tools like Twin Activate or PSIM.
Adding rotor position dependency in the tables exported to system-level tools like Twin Activate or PSIM.
DON’T FORGET !
Running optimization studies is just a click away!
Altair’s optimization tool HyperStudy® can be directly launched from FluxMotor® with your model ready to be used in optimization studies, with selected input variables and output responses automatically uploaded.
Do you know that you can also build detailed Flux models from FluxMotor®?
Go to the Export area, select the test, configure it and go.
In a few minutes, you get your fully parameterized model meshed and ready to be solved. A great time saving, especially when it comes to generate a 3D model!
Having a Flux model ready to be solved in a few cliks from FluxMotor
Want to know more about the new version? Get all the details in the Release Notes [Link].
If you want to learn also about Flux and its new features, follow this [Link]
Enjoy the new version !
Fabrice Marion - Senior Program Manager - FluxMotor®
Vincent Leconte - Senior Director - Electrification Solutions
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