Leading-Edge Electric Motors and Drives Development for the Electrification of Vehicles
This webinar focuses on the design of electric motors and will show how multiphysics simulation and optimization allow to innovate and reduce costs, while considering multiple design constraints. Spin Applicazioni Magnetiche, a company creating innovative solutions of rare earth free synchronous reluctance motors for various power levels and applications will present a practical use case, including a detailed comparison between simulation and test results, considering electromagnetic, thermal and vibration responses.
Webinars
Webinar: Your Global Partner to Boost Electrification Projects
The path towards electrification requires significant investment, changes to technologies, development processes and even organizational structures. This introductory webinar will reveal Altair's simulation- and data-driven design tools to accelerate all electrification projects by helping to make good decisions early.
The session will cover solutions for the design of the various parts of electric drive systems, from the battery to the wheels; while considering system integration and the architecture changes that must be made at vehicle level to build innovative energy efficient electric mobility solutions.
Webinars
Enabling Future e-Powertrain Development
Lars Fredriksson introduces Altair development support strategies for e-mobility and provides examples to showcase how these strategies help companies develop e-powertrain systems with an increased level of innovation in reduced time.
Webinars
Connecting Physics and Real-World Data for Meaningful Digital Twins
Digital Twin is enjoying a breakthrough, fueled by advances in the sophisticated use of physics-based simulation models of varying fidelities. Connected and informed by data from the field with the help of artificial intelligence, Leonardo S.p.A. validates the performance of product systems virtually in the early stages of design to accelerate the development of their next generation of products.
Future.Industry 2021
Altair® Flux® Can Take the Heat - Optimizing The Energy Exchange of an Induction Hob System at Groupe SEB
As inductive heating becomes more popular, cookware manufacturers must develop efficient cooking pans that meet consumers’ expectations. Groupe SEB’s engineers aimed to create a new pan that fulfilled product requirements while minimizing material and development costs. Because testing physical prototypes is time-consuming, the engineers created a virtual prototype of an induction hob. The Groupe SEB’s team realized a parametric model of an induction hob heating system considered the entire system’s magnetic and thermal aspects. Parallel lab tests confirmed the numeric model’s accuracy, which gave the engineers a better understanding of the induction exchange, and helped them eliminate valid but inefficient solutions before building the first prototype.
Customer Stories
Optimizing a Thrust Balance through a Multiphysics Approach
Dactem (a DAM group company), developer of specialist test, measurement and assembly solutions for the aerospace industries, presents an overview of the optimization of a thrust balance used for accurate measurements in electrical thruster qualification endurance testing. The presentation will provide details on how a Multiphysics simulation approach was used to find the optimum design taking mechanical, thermal and electromagnetic performance into account.
Speakers: Emmanuel Pouleau, CEO, Dactem (a DAM Group company)
Pierre Moutet, Engineer, Dactem (a DAM Group company)
Duration: 15 minutes
Conference Presentations
Resonate Well - Harvesting Bladeless Wind Energy, by Vortex Bladeless
Sustainable designs last longer. David Yáñez from Vortex Bladeless, a Spanish start-up, shares his vision of the technology, the strategies used for the integration of the different physical phenomena involved in the simulation-driven design, and the development of their resonating structures having minimal parts susceptible to wear by friction. The simulation results from CFD, with fluid-structure interaction, and electromagnetic field simulation are compared with experimental wind tunnel results and from in-service environments.
Future.Industry 2021
Fireside Chat: Why Engineers will be the key to unlock the digitilization potential at manufacturers
The ever-advancing digitization is being driven by the convergence of simulation, data, and HPC. While virtual methods, interoperable tools, and standardized interfaces become state of the art, the engineers and their management will play a significant role to break down silos and benefit from a Digital Thread.
In this fireside chat, we will discuss the importance of people to unleash the potential of Digital Twins, how they can combine the different fields of product development and what is still missing to make the connection.
Future.Industry 2021
Reduce e-Motor Multiphysics Optimization Cycle from Weeks to Hours
By combining computationally efficient reduced-order models and detailed CAE analysis with process automation of repetitive and tedious tasks, Altair provides workflows for early system models, mixed-fidelity simulations, and multiphysics validations, across domains including electrification or advanced manufacturing. In this example, we're showing the end-to-end multiphysics optimization cycle of an electric motor, reducing the simulation process time from weeks to hours.
Quick Start
Fully Automated Optimization Engine
ZF develops a wide variety of e-motors and e-drives for a broad spectrum of automotive customers. To optimally incorporate development and production costs from the outset, their designers must find solutions to maximize shared parts within the given requirements for the motors.
ZF, in collaboration with Altair, employed a simulation and data-driven solution that empowered them to consider shared parts, costs, and further constraints to automatically find best configurations for a modular motor platform.
Customer Stories
Altair for Electronic System Design (ESD)
Electronic system design (ESD) is having a greater influence on almost every type of product requiring new simulation tools to help achieve electronic, electrical, mechanical, thermal, and connectivity goals. Altair’s simulation-driven design tools enable your team of specialized engineers to collaborate across all aspects of printed circuit board development from concept to manufacturing. Our products streamline your process, eliminate design iterations, and reduce time-to-market.
Brochures
Simulation as a central element of Mayer & Cie’s digital development strategy More efficient machine generations thanks to virtual product development
Mayer & Cie. GmbH & Co. KG sets simulation as a central element of the digital development strategy and leverages virtual product development for more efficient machine generations. Marcel Wohlleb presents simulation applications and illustrates how customers of the world market leader in circular knitting benefit.
ATCx Industrial Machinery 2021
ATCx E-Powertrain - E-Motor Panel Discussion
A recording of the electric motor development panel discussion as part of the ATCx Electric Powertrain virtual event in March 2021. The panel features insight from Cleef Thackwell, Lead Motor Design Engineer at Jaguar Land Rover; Dr. Lars Fredriksson, VP Global Automotive at Altair; James Eves, Team Manager at Altair; Jonathan Stevens, Senior Development Engineer at Equipmake; Andy Jones, Innovation Program Manager at HiETA Technologies; Sergi Riba, Design Engineer at Safran Ventilation Systems; and Vincent Leconte, Senior Director of Global Business Development, Electromechanical Solutions at Altair.
Conference Presentations
Electric Machine Noise and Vibration Assessment Using MASTA / Flux
Andrew Lawton, Principal Research Engineer at Smart Manufacturing Technology. Andrew has worked at SMT for almost 10 years with a focus on the dynamic analysis of drivetrains, including the effect of excitation forces from the electric machine as well as the gears.
Andrew’s presentation will cover NVH analysis of an EV drivetrain, specifically with regard to response to electric machine forces generated by Altair Flux. He will illustrate this by looking at how the presence of unbalanced magnetic pull can affect the NVH response by importing the forces from Flux into MASTA.
Conference Presentations
Multi-Physics Design of e-Motors Using Optimization with Examples from Porsche and AMG
Dr. Lars Fredriksson, VP - Simulation Driven Innovation at Altair, presents the multi-physics design of e-motors with a particular focus on optimising performance including efforts to maximize torque and power under defined driving conditions while keeping rotor stresses, motor vibrations and motor temperature within certain limits. We’ll also see some specific examples of this process as applied to e-motor development at both Porsche and AMG.
Conference Presentations
Creating the World’s Most Power Dense Electric Motor
James Eves, Team Manager at Altair, Jonathan Stevens, Senior Development Engineer at Equipmake and Andy Jones, Innovation Program Manager at HiETA Technologies, discuss AMPERE, a joint project to produce an extremely lightweight, efficient but low-cost electric motor with an extremely high continuous power density. The consortium will present some of the engineering challenges that designing such a high performance motor has posed, and how these challenges have been overcome through advanced manufacturing technology and simulation driven design.
Conference Presentations
Electric Machines for Aerospace - Technology Needs for Aircraft’s Energy Transition
Sergi Riba, Design Engineer at Safran Ventilation Systems, with a brief introduction by Vincent Leconte, Senior Director of Global Business Development - EM Solution at Altair. Together they discuss the development of electric machines for the aerospace sector.
Conference Presentations
Delivering the Electric Revolution with Intelligent Simulation Technologies
Dr. Royston Jones, CTO and Dr. Anthony Hahnel, Technical Director, give their keynote presentation during the ATCx Driving Innovation in Electric Powertrain 2021.
Conference Presentations
Sensor Accuracy Drives Performance - Model-Based Development Improves E-Motor Reliability and Efficiency
High accuracy sensors and encoders are integral components of an e-motor drive, greatly impacting the quality and efficiency on the system. A purpose-driven simulation approach is needed to account for all the physical interdependencies within these complex multi-domain systems. Lenord + Bauer worked with Altair to develop a system simulation process for their high-accuracy encoders to understand their impact on the quality and efficiency of the system.
Customer Stories
Streamline your e-Motor Design with Multiphysics Optimization at Early Concept Level
Altair FluxMotor™ is a software dedicated to the design of e-Motor concepts. It enables designers to build machines within minutes, quickly run multiphysics tests to assess machine performance, and select most promising concepts. Coupled with Altair HyperStudy™, more design exploration and optimization can be accomplished. Using these tools confidence can be established in meeting requirements, even at this early design stage.
Product Overview Videos
Guide to Electronic System Development
Manufacturers today are tasked with designing smart, connected products at a breakneck pace to stay ahead of the competition. As performance demands continually increase, packaging sizes become smaller, and device connectivity becomes more critical, schematic engineers and product designers need ways to make efficient design decisions and collaborate with one another to optimize complex interconnected mechanical and electromagnetic systems. To develop the next generation of smart products, organizations are turning simulation to improve device performance and drive profitability.
eGuide
Accelerating Upright Scooter Mechatronic Development
Integrate models for mechanical, electrical, and controller subsystems to simulate your mechatronic product holistically as a system-of-systems. Exchange models and/or co-simulate with other CAE tools either from Altair (such as Altair MotionSolve® and Altair Flux®) or from 3rd parties through the Functional Mockup Interface (FMI) open standard.
Use Cases
Electric Vehicle Drivetrain Optimization & System of System Simulation
Simulate electric powertrains for various types of vehicles (e.g., cars, trucks, buses, trains, scooters, drones, aircraft, etc.) combining mechanical plant models with motors, batteries, & controllers together with realistic drive cycles. Then optimize the overall performance of your electric vehicles.
Product Overview Videos
Guide to Process Manufacturing
Any industry that produces bulk quantities of goods such as pharmaceuticals, food, chemicals, or cosmetics, is seeking to produce these products consistently while reducing cost factors like waste and down time. Due to the nature of process manufacturing, multiple ingredients are combined to be mixed, coated, or sorted, so understanding the behavior of these processes is of paramount importance for manufacturers. Through the use of simulation modeling and Smart Manufacturing principals, manufacturers are now able to optimize these processes, leading to greater productivity and profitability.
eGuide
Optimal Design for Cell Phone Cameras - Motorola Mobility uses Simulation of Voice Coil Motors in Consumer Cameras
The competitive consumer device industry has quick time-to-market deadlines. Smartphone cameras use voice coil motor (VCM) actuators to translate a lens in three degrees of freedom in order to bring an object to focus on the image plane and to optically stabilize the camera. To ensure optimal design, the Motorola Mobility team selected Altair Flux™ to simulate the entire VCM and camera system. Flux allowed the team to quickly validate designs and ensure that the part compatibility and camera performance met the design targets. Other devices within the phone, such as speakers, antenna shields, accessory magnets etc. can affect the VCM performance due to magnetic interference. With Flux, the team simulated the entire VCM and phone layout, accounting for all possible magnetic interference from other devices.
Customer Stories
Magneto-thermal PMSM Performance Simulation with Validation
In order to reduce energy consumption, efficiency is a key criterion that designers seek to optimize their electric
motors. Complementary to the electromagnetic analysis, a thermal characterization is essential to study from the first design phase how temperature influences the performance of the machine. To obtain results close to
the real working conditions, the motor control and the current harmonics produced by the electrical converter
and control algorithms cannot be ignored.
Technical Document
Rethinking the e-Motor Design Process to Maximize Vehicle Range
In this article, appearing in the Fall 2020 issue of Engine + Powertrain Technology International, Altair outlines how a holistic approach to propulsion system design is enabling manufacturers to meet performance requirements while maximizing vehicle range.
Technical Document
Power Transformer under Short-circuit Fault Conditions: Multiphysics Approach to Evaluate the Robustness
Transformers’ windings experience mechanical loads from electromagnetic forces due to the currents they carry. Power transformers can suffer from high sudden short-circuit currents. These short-circuit currents are a significant threat, not only from an electrical but also from the structural integrity point of view. In this paper, coupled electromagnetic and structural mechanics simulations are carried out to evaluate short-circuit fault risks in a comprehensive and accurate way.
Technical Document
New Iron Losses Characterization in Altair Flux™
Altair Flux new material losses data using the unique LS model and ability to consider own measurements enables to produce the most accurate predictions of iron losses according to your material specificities. Moreover, enhanced material manager interface enables to quickly update material properties and models and add Bertotti material coefficients.
Product Overview Videos
Altair Flux™ Direct Model Export for Straightforward System Integration
Altair Flux offers a direct model export compatible with major system simulation software for straightforward system integration. Two different formats are available: FMU (Functional Mockup Units) dynamic models format is straightforward, standardized and very efficient, while lookup tables are an interesting alternative, offering the opportunity to adjust the dimensions of the table according to the required precision. Latest improvement enable impressive speed-up with Altair Activate™.
Quick Start
Analysis of Large Air Flux Leakage Applications Accelerated with Altair Flux™ Integral Methods
Altair Flux offers faster and more accurate 3D magnetostatics analysis thanks to the implementation of new integral method. This is extremely interesting for applications with a lot of flux leakage in air, such as sensors modelling. No air mesh is required, dramatically reducing the computation time versus classical finite element method and offering much higher accuracy.
Use Cases
Altair Flux™ 2020 - New Features Presentation
Discover in our quick video the latest Altair Flux new features, among which: accelerated analysis for applications with large air flux leakage, losses accuracy improvement thanks to new iron losses characterization, inductance computation in transient analysis, improved skewed capabilities and faster system coupling.
Product Overview Videos
Improving Speed and Precision of a CNC Milling Machine with Holistic System Simulation
The presentation outlines a solution strategy for how a digital twin of a milling machine is solving mechatronic challenges. To improve cycle times, accuracy, and addressing vibration problems a holistic system simulation serves as the basis for optimization.
The efficient modeling of the real system behavior with flexibilities, contacts, gaps, friction, nonlinearities in the drives (incl. saturation effects of motors), power electronics in combination with the control system is the basis for efficient controller design and optimization of the control parameters.
The dynamic interaction of multiple system components combining 3D finite elements analysis
multi-body dynamics and control system helps avoiding Tracking-, drag-, positioning errors rebound, and accumulation effects.
Use Cases
Schneider Electric Accelerates the Development of Smarter Equipment
As the world becomes more connected, devices are requiring more sensors, with better integration. See how Schneider Electric is using Altair Flux to efficiently design and integrate next sensors technology in their new equipment.
Testimonial
Evolution & Usage of Electromagnetic Simulation in the Naval & Shipbuilding Industry
The Marine Engineering and Shipbuilding Industry is becoming even more important in the connected world. The ability to accelerate turnaround time and reduce cost is becoming a key driver to success. The use of simulation technologies to improve design efficiency and reduce physical testing costs continues to be one of the best ways to address engineering challenges in the Marine industry.
Webinars
Using Altair Software for Electromagnetics
Altair software is used across industries to solve a broad range of electromagnetic problems from static to low and high frequencies. Whether your application requires multiple frequency and time-domain techniques with true hybridization to enable the efficient exploration of a broad spectrum of electromagnetic performance, other the simulation of magneto static, steady-state and transient conditions, we have the tools you need.
Learn more at altair.com/electromagnetics.
Use Cases
Using Altair Software for Multiphysics
Altair provides an industry-leading portfolio of multiphysics-enabled software to simulate a wide range of interacting physical models including fluid-structure interaction, flexible bodies, aeroacoustics, and thermomechanical simulation. Together with Altair’s multidisciplinary optimization and scalable high-performance computing you can solve real world engineering problems quickly and effectively.
Learn more at altair.com/multiphysics.
Use Cases
EM and EDA, from Concept to Production
Altair’s portfolio of simulation-driven design solutions covers – amongst many other disciplines – electromagnetics (EM) and electronic design automation (EDA).
Conference Presentations
Altair FluxMotor - Thermal Design, Test, and NVH Evaluation
The latest release of FluxMotor, Altair's software product for electric machines design, adds several functionalities in the area of thermal design, test, and NVH evaluation. This short video illustrates some of the major updates.
Use Cases
Altair Flux and FluxMotor - Electric Motor Optimization
Designing an efficient motor has always been a complicated set of tasks. Altair's multidisciplinary optimization platform is a solution that allows considering multiphysics parameters and conflicting constraints.
Use Cases
Using Multiphysics to Predict and Prevent EV Battery Fire
Electric vehicles (EV) offer the exciting possibility to meet the world’s transportation demands in an environmentally sustainable way. Mass adoption could help reduce our reliance on fossil fuels, but the lithium-ion (Li-on) batteries that power them still present unique challenges to designers and engineers, primary among them to ensuring safety against battery fire.
To achieve vehicle manufacturer’s ambitious adoption goals, it is necessary to improve the safety of Li-on batteries by better understanding all of the complex, interconnected aspects of their behavior across both normal and extreme duty cycles.
Altair is focused on developing a comprehensive understanding of automotive battery safety issues which it has named the Altair Battery Designer project. It combines innovative design methods and tools to model and predict mechanical damage phenomena as well as thermal and electro-chemical runaway. Altair has developed an efficient way to calculate mechanical and short-term thermal response to mechanical abuses, providing accurate computational models and engineer-friendly methods to design a better battery.
White Papers
Multiphysics Simulation of Electrical Rotating Machines and Next Gen Design - Rotating Machinery
This workshop will showcase a process-oriented multidisciplinary simulation environment to accurately analyse the performance of complex rotating machines. The participants would learn about multiple physics analysis of motors; including electromagnetics, structural, thermal, and fluid dynamics using highly automated modelling tasks, helping to drastically reduce the time spent creating finite element models and interpreting results.
Unique solution by Altair for rotating machinery process takes setup to a solution, time from hours to minutes which allows engineer to try multiple design iterations in a short time and create a performance curve in the automated environment.
Webinars
Altair for Multiphysics Applications
Altair provides an industry-leading portfolio of multiphysics-enabled software to simulate a wide range of interacting physical models including fluid-structure interaction (FSI), flexible bodies, aeroacoustics, and thermomechanical simulation.
Brochures
Online Workshop - Electromagnetic and Thermal Simulation of PMSM (IPM) Motor
Electromagnetic and Thermal Simulation of PMSM (IPM) Motor
Webinars
Training - Rated Torque Simulation of IPM Motor Using Altair Flux
Rated Torque Simulation of IPM Motor Using Altair Flux
Webinars
Infographic: The Impact of Multiphysics Optimization on e-Motor Development
Simulation helps you validate at the end of a product design cycle, but deployed early and throughout a development process, it can actually allow you to explore more potential solutions, collaborate more effectively and optimize the design for cost, performance, weight, and other important criteria. This infographic provides a framework for developing and implementing your own simulation-driven process to help you produce more efficient e-motors and shorten development times.
Technical Document
Electric Motors Multidisciplinary Optimization Platform
The design of a high-performance e-Motor is a complex undertaking. Engineers have conflicting constraints to consider including efficiency, temperature, weight, size and cost. To explore more ideas, better understand their designs and improve performance, Altair HyperWorks™ has a workflow to guide motor designers through an efficient process of Simulation-Driven Design. This analysis and optimization solution supports multi-disciplinary teamwork and reduces design times.
Use Cases
The Influence of Sensors on e-Motor Powertrain Performance
High accuracy sensors and encoders are integral components of an e-motor drive, greatly impacting the quality
and efficiency on the system. A purpose-driven simulation approach is needed to account for all the physical
interdependencies within these complex multi-domain systems.
Technical Document