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Design Optimization

OptiNet works seamlessly with the other Infolytica products listed below to optimize your designs:

Low Frequency Electromagnetics

Low Frequency Electric Field

Thermal and coupled magnetic/thermal

Features of these products:

• Geometric Modeler
  Easy to use Extrusion-Based and Solid Modeling tools make even the most complicated designs quick and painless to draw.

• Material Library and Modeler
  Standard and customizable user library for creating materials with desired behavior and properties.

• Circuit Modeler (MagNet only)
  Connect your device to external drives and loads.

• Meshing & Adaption
  Automatic or user-defined mesh generation with adaption tools for refinements.

• Boundary Conditions
  Specify the behavior of the unknown fields on the outer surfaces of the model.
  MagNet / ElecNet / ThermNet
  

• Parameterization
  Parameterize any system and user defined variables for powerful "what-if" analysis.

• Customization & Automation
  Find out more on how Infolytica's powerful scripting engine allows our products to work with any programming environment that implements ActiveX scripting and OLE Automation, such as Visual Basic Script, Java Script, Perl, etc.

Case Studies

Example(s) of how you can develop real-life solutions using Infolytica software:

Note All Case Studies are in PDF format.

• Levitator Shape Optimization
  This case study examines how you can implement an optimization algorithm in another application such as Microsoft© Excel, and use this to interact with MagNet to get solutions for successive optimization steps.

Gallery Spotlight -- Design Optimization

	The task of the machine designer--a tireless effort to optimize torque ripple, running torque, efficiency, cost and a whole host of other factors--is now made easier with the latest releases of MagNet and OptiNet from Infolytica.
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Other "Design Optimization" examples of our software in action :

Core Loss and Efficiency Calculations with Infolytica software
Magnetic losses (also known as iron losses or core losses) are an area of growing interest in fields such as advanced electric machines and transformers. See how Infolytica's software can give you more accurate results for both thermal and magnetic simulations.

Advanced Optimization of an IPM (Interior Permanent Magnet) Machine
This example looks at the optimization of a 3-phase, 4-pole single-barrier IPM (interior permanent magnet) using the combined power of MagNet (as the core solution engine) and OptiNet (as the optimizer).

Discrete-valued design optimization -- induction heating
OptiNet's discrete optimizer is featured here in this example of how OptiNet, in tandem with MagNet and ThermNet, is used to find the optimal shape design for a multiple coil inductor device.

Coil Size Optimization - induction heating
This Gallery page demonstrates how OptiNet is used with MagNet and ThermNet in a coupled electromagnetic-thermal simulation. The objective of this optimization is to find the inner radii of the coils in order to obtain a uniform temperature in the upper portion of a workpiece. This simulation is a transient thermal solution that, at each time step during the transient process, is coupled to a time-harmonic electromagnetic solution.

Surge Arrester: minimizing electric field stress in resistors
In this Gallery page, we show how the tandem of OptiNet and ElecNet was used to find the dimensions and the placing of the grading rings in a surge arrester, with the aim of lowering the max p.u. electric stress in the resistors.

Brushless Motor: minimizing cogging torque
This example demonstrates the use of OptiNet with MagNet to find the ideal dimensions for the air gap and the stator teeth in order to produce a minimum cogging torque, while still maintaining a certain running torque.

Shape optimization of a die press
This page demonstrates the use of OptiNet with MagNet to find the pole shape and dimensions of the die molds, with the purpose of producing a radial field in a magnetic powder component.

Optimization - minimizing loudspeaker mass
Using OptiNet with MagNet, this Gallery page demonstrates how you can find a loudspeaker design that has a minimum weight, while obtaining a certain flux density in the air gap.