Key Features

• Low-frequency electromagnetic field simulation and analysis using FEM for 3D/2D structures
  • Transient - Nonlinear analysis with:
    • Motion - rotation, translational, non-cylindrical rotation
    • External circuit coupling
    • Permanent magnet demagnetization analysis
    • Core loss computation
    • Lamination modeling for 3D
  • AC Electromagnetic - Analysis of devices influenced by skin/proximity effects, eddy/displacement currents
  • Magnetostatic - Nonlinear analysis with automated equivalent circuit model generation
  • Electric Field - Transient, Electrostatic/Current flow analysis with automated equivalent circuit model generation

• Display of data/visualization of results
  • Field visualization and animations (shaded, contour, and vector plots)
  • Mesh visualization (full, partial)
  • Current, induced voltage, flux linkage
  • Power loss, stored energy
  • Core loss, eddy, excess, hysteresis loss (including the minor loop effects)
  • Impedance, inductance, capacitance
  • Force, torque
  • Custom reports of user-defined solution data

• Performance and integration
  • Distributed Solve* for parallel computing of parameterized models
  • 64-bit operating system support
  • Links to HFSS™, RMxprt™, PExprt™

• Integrated 3D modeler featuring ACIS v16 and MFC technology
  • Standard primitives and multi-sweep functions
  • Boolean operations: union, subtraction, intersection
  • Direct import of SAT and DXF files
  • AnsoftLinks™* for import of STEP, IGES and Pro/E files

• Automatic, adaptive mesh technology
  • Fault-tolerant meshing algorithms
  • Mesh-generation feedback
    • GUI performs validation and integrity checks
    • Software identifies artifacts within the imported geometry
  • Mesh-based model resolution

  

• Versatile material manager and material types
  • User, group, and system libraries
  • Linear, nonlinear anisotropic materials
  • Material assignment by coordinate type: Cartesian, cylindrical, or spherical

• Integrated Optimetrics™*
  • Geometry and material parameterization
  • Optimization, sensitivity, and statistical analysis