Recommended products

Based on your application, we recommend the following products and simulation capabilities:

Low Frequency Electromagnetics

• Static solver 2D / 3D
• Time-harmonic solver 2D / 3D
• Transient with Motion solver 2D/3D

Design Optimization

• MagNet Plug-in for PSIM
• MagNet Plug-in for Simulink^®
• MagNet Plug-in for SPEED GoFER

Coupled Analysis

Easy-to-use wizards

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
  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 --
Motors and Generators

	View the capabilities of the 3D Transient with Motion solver in a unique and truly 3D machine--an axial flux disk induction machine. The flux flows parallel to the axis of the rotor. Currents are induced in a flat disc-shaped aluminum rotor element. The 3D Transient with Motion solver was used to model both a run-up to synchronous speed and also to create a torque-speed curve.
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Other "Motors and Generators" 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.

Ensuring Electric Machine Efficiency with MagNet and OptiNet
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.

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).

Brushless DC Motor in Motion with Temperature Effects
The impact of a high operating temperature on the performance of a Brushless DC (BDC) Motor with Interior Permanent Magnets (IPM) is investigated.

Power Transformer under Short-circuit condition
The model is a three-phase shell type 50kVA 20kV/380V distribution transformer. This transformer is of the Wescor type and includes four core sections and three pairs of windings corresponding to the three phases.

MagNet Plug-in for SPEED: Designing an IPM motor with fractional slot
This example showcases the MagNet Plug-in for SPEED, which effectively combines the advanced electric motor design software of SPEED with the powerful calculation capabilities of MagNet, to design an IPM motor with fractional slot.

IPM Motor with velocity feedback vector control
The combined power of MagNet and The MathWorks' Simulink^® is demonstrated here using the vector control of an Interior Permanent Magnet (IPM) motor.

IPM Motor with PWM drive and vector control
The vector control of an Interior Permanent Magnet (IPM) motor is simulated here using the combined power of PSIM, a circuit and systems simulator from PowerSim, and MagNet. PSIM simulates a rotor speed feedback loop, which generates PWM phase voltages. A transient motion solve running concurrently in MagNet uses these to calculate the coil currents, which are fed back to PSIM.

Magnetic Gear
This example illustrates the advanced capabilities of MagNet's Transient with Motion solver, which is capable of simulating multiple moving parts simultaneously.

Watch stepper motor
This Gallery example examines how Infolytica's Transient 3D with Motion solver is used to analyze the internal mechanics of a watch employing a stepper motor.

SPEEDLink Assistant - Examples
This Gallery page displays various examples of the MagNet models that have been created using SPEEDLink Assistant.

Permanent Magnet Stepper Motor
The damping due to bearing friction is taken into account in this simulation of a permanent magnet stepper motor. The motor is made of a stator with eccentric pole faces and a rotor made of samarium cobalt permanent magnet (magnetized in a fixed direction) that rotates in steps of 180 degrees. This page displays some quantities of interest to the user such as force/torque, position, velocity, and acceleration.

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.

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.

Full Field Views Using Partial Solutions
This example demonstrates how users can view a full solution field, even though the model is only partially solved, using symmetry boundary conditions.

TEAM problem 24 - Nonlinear Time-Transient Rotational Test Rig
Using MagNet's Transient 3D solver, the current, torque, rotor pole flux and the air gap point flux density are calculated for a nonlinear transient problem. This example shows how the simulation results that were obtained closely resemble the measured data published in the TEAM Problem 24 definition.

Brushless DC Cogging Torque with a Skewed Stator
This is an example of the calculation of cogging torque in a Brushless DC Motor. The torque, as a function of rotor angle, is calculated for two different stators: a straight stator and a skewed stator.

Axial Flux Motor
This example looks at an unconventional electrical motor, where the magnetic flux flows parallel to the axle of the motor. This type of motor is often used for applications requiring quick changes in speed.

Claw-Pole Alternator
This gallery page showcases the automatic current distribution calculation feature of MagNet. Some of the features that this page looks at are how MagNet uses its multi-segment sweep feature to create the stator windings, and how a Boolean intersection was performed to cut off sections of the coil passing through the two symmetry planes.

Excel with MagNet
This Gallery page provides a good example of how you can customize and automate the construction of your models, and how easily this can be accomplished using MagNet’s ActiveX capabilities in tandem with Microsoft® Excel.

Winding models using multi-segment sweep
This page shows how easy it is to create complex windings in MagNet, using our multi-segment sweep feature.

Induction Motor with Skewed Rotor
The induction motor analyzed here is a typical three-phase motor. The stator windings in this model are realistic involute shapes, created with the new multi-segment sweep option. This gallery page also demonstrates how easy it is to create and accurately model the rotors of induction motors that often have skewed slots to minimize torque ripple.

Brushless DC Motor in Motion
This gallery page demonstrates how you can accurately model the effects of the cogging torque in a brushless DC motor, using MagNet's Transient 2D with Motion solver.

Switched Reluctance Motor
This example analyses a simple switched reluctance motor using two different methods: MagNet's Transient 2D with Motion solver and a circuit simulator with the ActuatorWizard.

TEAM problem 30B - Single-phase induction machine
The accuracy of the transient 2d with motion solver in MagNet is demonstrated in this difficult benchmark, which compares the torque-speed curve of a single-phase induction motor to analytic results.

TEAM problem 30A - Three-phase induction machine
This is an example of a three-phase induction machine. It was designed as part of a TEAM benchmark problem in order to test software codes for their accuracy for analyzing such devices. In MagNet, this device is analyzed using the Transient 2D with Motion solver.

Miniature DC Motor
This gallery page focuses on a simple DC Motor that operates on the polarized armature principle. The motor is analysed using MagNet's Transient 2D with Motion solver.