Maxwell V13.

0
Release

Marius Rosu PhD

EM Product Manager

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New Capabilities
Performance
Productivity
ANSYS Workbench

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New Capabilities

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New Adaptive Mesh Refinement for the 3D Eddy

The adaptive mesh refinement is addressing both

large energy error domains and domains with large
eddy currents within the entire model space

Mesh with larger

eddy currents S Mesh with
12
S2 larger energy
errors
S1

Entire domain space

Mesh to be refined include S12 + part of S1 + part of S2

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New Adaptive Mesh Refinement for the 3D Eddy

With eddy effects

Without eddy effects

Automatically detects
- when and,
- where to refine

With eddy effects

Without eddy effects

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New Adaptive Mesh Refinement for the 3D Eddy

Old adaptive refinement

New adaptive refinement

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3D-Transient Cosimulation with Simplorer

Example: Axial-Disk PM Motor Control

Current Control Loop

Position Control Loop

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3D-Transient Cosimulation with Simplorer

Flux Linkage Profile

3ph Line Current Profile

Axial Motor – Speed & Torque Profile

Magnetic Flux Density

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Expand Demagnetization to 3rd Quadrant

• Expand the existing Only Maxwell 3D

algorithm to the 3rd Load line without B
other sources Initial Br
quadrant for demag
computation Load line with Br after demag

• Base on the actual other sources

user-input B-H 0 H
curve in the 3rd Hc after
quadrant demagnetization

Demagnetization point

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Add Magnetization Capability

• Based on the original Only Maxwell 3D

non-remanent B-H B Line a
curve
• Construct line b at the Br p
Line b
operating point p, which
is parallel to the line a
• Br is the intersection of
line b with B-axis
0 H
• Element by element

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Functional Magnetization Direction

Only Maxwell 3D

• Allow unit vector

for magnetization
direction to be
functional

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Transient Solid Winding Source with More Than 2 Terminals

In 3D transient, add time varying solid winding source

with more than 2 terminals
i2

i1

i3
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Electric Transient Solver

• Allow charge, volume charge density

as an initial condition
• Support insulator, instead of applying
conductor with small conductivity

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Continue Transient Solution

• Allow user to clean stop an in-progress

transient simulation and modify in a linked
design:
– Material Properties
– Excitation Conditions (including the external circuit)
– Mechanical Setup
– Solution Setup

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New UDP Components

Shaded-Pole Topology
Core Topology

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 RMxprt V13.0
New Slot Editor

Extension of Start Width Arbitrary

current 6 combination
slot types of 8 elements
Start Width
Height

End Width

Start Width

End Width

Radius

Slot Editor
Start Width

Radius

Start Width

Symmetric or
asymmetric Radius

slots

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Solver Support of New Slot Type

For All Machine Types:

• Magnetic circuit solution for teeth
• Slot leakage inductance computation

Support Edited
Slot Type in
RMxprt Solvers

Maxwell Design Creation:

• 2D geometry creation by scripts
• 3D geometry creation by scripts

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New Machine Type

Universal Operating Modes:

• Motors
• Generators (wind-power generators)

New Machine Type:

Wound Rotor
Induction Machine

Double-Fed Induction Generators (DFIG):

• Variable frequency excitations
• Maximum power point tracking (MPPT)

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New Modeler Capabilities

• Fillets and Chamfers are now available in the modeler for Maxwell
2D and on 2D objects in the Maxwell 3D modeler
• For line objects, one can now assign a cross section to a line and
automatically create a 2D or 3D object from a line
• For closed polylines (or sheets) one can move an edge along its
normal. This is useful for parameterization of 2D objects
• One can now remove commands from anywhere in an object’s
history tree
• One now has the option to keep objects that become unclassified
after a ‘split’ operation in the modeler. This is useful in
combination with the option to ignore unclassified objects when
validating the model and with parametric sweeps in which an
object is ‘removed’ by a split in some variations but not others

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New Modeler Capabilities

• One can now ‘select by area’ by dragging a box over a portion of

the model window
• One can also setup a select by area filter to select only certain
types of objects, or objects with certain materials, or certain
names
• One can now use ‘select by variable’ to find all geometry that
depends on a particular variable
• There are new ‘Imprint’ and ‘Imprint Projection’ commands that
allow to imprint a line or sheet object (or the projection of those
objects) onto the surface of a 3D object
• Clip plane to allow interactive cut-away view through arbitrary
plane
• Project Preview – Image and Notes available in File Open
• The measure command can now give the total length of a
selected polyline object
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Performance

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Speed Up 3D Transient

• Speed up x5
• Better nonlinear iteration algorithm
• Enhanced volume mesher (reducing total
number of nonlinear iterations)
• Introduce damping scheme to update
permeability for certain elements
• Support iterative solver option (PCG)
• Improve memory management

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Enhanced Volume Mesher (TAU)

Maxwell V13.0 Maxwell V12.2

• High meshing success rate
• Higher mesh quality
• Effective on imported geometries
• Matching boundary more robust
• Fewer total elements
• Smoother and more uniform element transition
• Automatically healing and repair

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Speed Up 3D Magnetic Transient

Induction Motor Magnetic Actuator

86:45 vs. 22:58 (Maxwell13.0) 75:49 vs. 14:57 (Maxwell13.0)

Study has been performed on DELL Dual Processors, 3GHz, 8GB RAM WXP 64-bit OS
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Speed Up 3D Magnetic Transient

BLDC Motor Axial-Disk Motor

35:34 vs. 9:28 (Maxwell13.0) 107:00 vs. 25:17 (Maxwell13.0)

Study has been performed on DELL Dual Processors, 3GHz, 8GB RAM WXP 64-bit OS
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Higher Capacity Solver Capabilities
• Significant memory saving PCG Iterative Solver
• Allow to solve large problem
• Develop good pre-conditioners to get efficient speed performance
Example: Team Workshop Problem #8
Eddy-Current Problem

64 bits machine
(2.83 GHz,16.0 GB of RAM)

Residual tolerance 0.00001

Mesh (volume, adaptive) 00:19:26 00:19:26 2.9 G 3665594 tetrahedra
Iterative Solver 02:44:37 02:44:19 13.5 G 5308396 matrix
Adapt 01:43:22 01:43:19 13.5 G 3665594 tetrahedra

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Performance – HPC

• New Remote Simulation Manager

– Simple configuration of distributed networks
– Improved scalability over many nodes
– Scheduler integration: LSF, Microsoft HPC, etc
• Reduction of bottlenecks for projects with many
parametric variations
• Reliability and robustness
• Distributed frequency sweeps for 2D and 3D eddy
solutions

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Enhanced Matching Boundary Capabilities

• Automatically connect
two parts of a winding
separated by matching
boundary
• Much easier for winding
setup

Automatically identify 3D coil terminal

counterparts and connect them together

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Productivity

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 RMxprt V13.0
Integrated Motor Solution

• RMxprt automatically creates complete Maxwell 2D

and Maxwell 3D designs
– Geometry and minimum solving region creation with matching
boundary setup
– Motion and mechanical setup
– Material property and core loss setup
– Winding and source setup including drive circuit
• Use enhanced mesher to generate 2D and 3D uniform
mesh with high quality and reasonable size
• Fast 3D transient solver
• Direct output of most useful engineering quantities,
including force/torque, core loss, current, flux linkage,
induced voltage, speed, position, etc

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Integrated Motor Solution

Geometry Creation with Material Setup with

Magnet and Lamination
Auto-Selection of End
Directions in Local
Connection Type Coordinate Systems

Complete Complete Excitation

Maxwell Setup (Include
Coupling Circuit
2D/3D Design Setup)
Setup

Minimized Matching Boundary and

Axial Symmetric Boundary
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Postprocessing

• The user can now create post processing

variables and generate reports that sweep
these variable values without requiring new
solutions
• Improved unit handling for values calculated
in the fields postprocessor
• The user can now set the units for display on
field overlays
• New “Streamline” plots can be created for
vector field plots

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ANSYS Workbench

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ANSYS Workbench

• Two-way thermal coupling between Maxwell3D and ANSYS

Mechanical with temperature dependent materials in Maxwell
• Thermal coupling from Maxwell to ANSYS Mechanical now also
includes the losses from impedance boundaries in 3D
• One-way stress coupling between Maxwell3D and ANSYS
Mechanical including only the volumetric force densities
transfer from Maxwell
• Temperature plots are available in Maxwell to support 2-way
coupling
• The average loss density can be plotted in Maxwell transient
• The average loss density can be plotted in Maxwell 3D eddy
• Maxwell supports integration with Design Exploration

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ANSYS Multiphysics

Maxwell V13.0 Coupling with ANSYS R12.1

– Includes Thermal and Structural solutions

Mapping Power Loss Thermal-Structural

Mapping Electromagnetic Force

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Design Exploration

Maxwell Project

Workbench Schematic

P1 - cond

P2 - parallel

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Design Exploration - Design of Experiments

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Design Exploration – Response Surface

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Design Exploration – Six Sigma

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 - New Modeler Capabilities
Maxwell V13.0 Release
- Speed Up 3D Transient
- Better nonlinear iteration algorithm
- Enhanced volume mesher (reducing total number
of nonlinear iterations)
- Introduce damping scheme to update
permeability for certain elements
- Support iterative solver option (PCG)
- Improve memory management
- New Remote Simulation Manager
- Simple configuration of distributed networks
- Improved scalability over many nodes
- Scheduler integration: LSF, Microsoft
HPC, etc
- Reduction of bottlenecks for projects with many
parametric variations
- Reliability and robustness
- Distributed frequency sweeps for 2D and 3D eddy
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