More on coupling ThermNet and MagNet
Coupled solutions of the same dimension can be configured to solve:
- Static Thermal solution coupled with Static Magnetic solution
- Static Thermal solution coupled with Time-harmonic Magnetic solution
- Static Thermal solution coupled with Transient or Transient with Motion Magnetic solution
- Transient Thermal solution coupled with Static Magnetic solution
- Transient Thermal solution coupled with Time-harmonic Magnetic solution
- Transient Thermal solution coupled with Transient or Transient with Motion Magnetic solution
Note: For any interdimensional coupled analysis, please refer to MultiNet.
Enable and Disable Option
Depending on the type of analysis, it may be sometimes necessary to ignore a feature, which is essential in the magnetic or thermal solution, but not essential in the other. In other words, modeling a feature in one aspect of physics may be important, while in some other aspects, unnecessary. The enable/disable options were added to allow users to optionally enable or disable any component during the analysis.
Example: In induction heating systems, the modeling of the coils, the air, and the component that is being heated, is necessary during the magnetics analysis, only the heated component is required during the thermal analysis.
Coupled static thermal solutions solver controls:
- Specify which problem (magnetic or thermal) should be solved first
- Maximum number of coupled solutions
- Convergence tolerance for the coupled solutions
Coupled transient thermal solutions solver controls allow for specifying the number times to solve the electromagnetic problem:
- Solve at every step of the thermal transient
- Solve at the beginning
- Solve at every user specified interval
Option to use the same or different meshes in thermal and magnetic solutions. The mesh adaption in ThermNet works independently of the magnetic solver since the two meshes are not necessarily identical. The convergence tolerance is set on the change of an energy related global quantity.