Application: Levitators
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Recommended products
Based on your application, we recommend the following products and simulation capabilities:
Low Frequency Electromagnetics
Design Optimization
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.
- 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.
Gallery Spotlight -- Levitators
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This gallery page demonstrates a variation of the MagLev suspension system that implements the "Magnetic River" concept; it is based on repulsion forces from dynamically induced eddy currents. The idea is to use the same set of coils for both levitation and propulsion. In the motor example shown on this page, the coil structure is in a transverse flux configuration similar to that used in the prototype NASA MagLev for a shuttle launch system. |
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Other "Levitators" examples of our software in action :
Levitation with
arbitrary motion
Here is an example of an aluminum plate that is 3 mm thick and positioned above
two coils whose current is 180 degrees out of phase. The motion of the plate
when the initial position is off center can be modeled using three degrees of
freedom: translation along the x and y-axes and rotation about the z-axis.
Perforated Levitating
Disk
This page examines a disc that first jumps from its resting position, oscillates
for a certain period until finally levitating at a specific height above a coil,
which is using an AC current as its input source. Of the two animations that
accompany this page, one shows the dynamic position of the levitating plate whilst
the other demonstrates the current density of the plate through a few cycles.
Case Studies
Example(s) of how you can develop real-life solutions using Infolytica software:
Note All Case Studies are in PDF format.
3D Case Studies Time Harmonic Problems:
- AC Induction Levitator
This case study examines the resulting induced current density in an aluminum channel above an array of U-core electromagnets energized from a low-frequency AC supply. - Levitator Shape Optimization
This case study examines how you can implement an optimization algorithm in another application such as Microsoftİ Excel, and use this to interact with MagNet to get solutions for successive optimization steps.