OptiNet is a truly innovative tool for optimizing electromagnetic or thermal devices, using both continuous-valued and discrete-valued variables: no other software of this type on the market has this capability.
OptiNet's features include:- Works with MagNet, ElecNet or ThermNet models
- Both Continuous and Discrete optimizer
- Evolutionary strategy for searching that is very efficient, even for a large number of parameters
- Built-in and customizable scripts for objective functions and constraints
- Sensitivity analysis for evaluating the global variations of the design variables
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Recent Developments
in OptiNet
- Supported operating systems now include Microsoft Windows® Vista
- Equipped with a wider variety of objective/constraint functions, an expanded list of built-in functions for expressions, and re-usable expression variables.
- Added support for a new type of variable called "Discrete List" that allows the user to specify a set of values to choose from during optimization. Ideally, at least 10 values should be specified
- Added support for Discrete steps in the optimizer to support variables that are not continuous (e.g. number of coil turns).
An IPM machine is optimized to minimize the torque ripple while maintaining a minimum running torque, ensuring that the back EMF does not exceed the supply voltage, with the additional constraints that the efficiency be at least 80% at both 1800 and 4000 rpm.Read more »
Starting from a model based on the WFNDEC Eddy Current Benchmark #2, OptiNet was used to determine the optimal coil geometry and frequency at which the inspection should be performed.Read more »
OptiNet uses MagNet and ThermNet to find the inductor coil configuration so that only the top surface of the workpiece reaches a uniform temperature of 1000 degrees Celsius after 25 seconds with efficiency of the system above 75%.Read more »