Application: Thermal Analysis
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Recommended products
Based on your application, we recommend the following products and simulation capabilities:
Thermal and coupled magnetic/thermal
Design Optimization
Coupled Analysis
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. - 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 -- Thermal Analysis
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The impact of a high operating temperature on the performance of a Brushless DC (BDC) Motor with Interior Permanent Magnets (IPM) is investigated. |
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Other "Thermal Analysis" 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.
Induction hardening in 3D using surface impedance
This page shows an example of an induction heating simulation using ThermNet's 3D coupled electromagnetic-thermal solver. It also demonstrates the use of the "surface impedance" feature in order to increase solution speed.
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.
Gas
Insulated Switch
To demonstrate the flexibility of Infolytica's suite of Electromagnetic and Thermal
Analysis packages, we have taken a Gas Insulated Switch and simulated it under
a variety of different loads and configurations.
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.
Floating Ring
: electromagnetic-thermal simulation
For this analysis, we are using the same model that is described in the Floating
Ring gallery page, except that in this case, MultiNet combines
the Transient Thermal solver in ThermNet and the Transient with
Motion solver in MagNet to solve the coupled electromagnetic-thermal problem.
Case hardening
of a bearing raceway
This gallery page is an example of the hardening of a raceway for a bearing,
using the coupled solving capabilities of MagNet and ThermNet.
Induction heating
past the Curie point
This problem, consisting of a workpiece and a driving coil, demonstrates the
fully-coupled capabilities of the ThermNet and MagNet solvers.
NAFEMS Benchmark
for Thermal Analysis
The accuracy of the Thermal solver is verified with this apparently simple benchmark
problem, which is actually computationally difficult due to a numerical singularity.
Induction heating
of a tube
An example of the induction heating of a tube, solved using ThermNet and MagNet
by coupling the 2D thermal transient solver to the 2D magnetic time-harmonic
solver.
Bus Bar with
Heat Sink
The treatment of temperature dependent material properties is illustrated in
this simple coupled problem, which shows how currents in a bus bar will redistribute
due to thermal effects.