Ansys Maxwell is an EM field solver for electric machines, transformers, wireless charging, permanent magnet latches, actuators and other electr mechanical devices. It solves static, frequency-domain and time-varying magnetic and electric fields. Maxwell also offers specialized design interfaces for electric machines and power converters.
With Maxwell, you can precisely characterize the nonlinear, transient motion of electromechanical components and their effects on the drive circuit and control system design. By leveraging Maxwell’s advanced electromagnetic field solvers and seamlessly linking them to the integrated circuit and systems simulation technology, you can understand the performance of electromechanical systems long before building a prototype in hardware.
Maxwell offers trusted simulation of low-frequency electromagnetic fields in industrial components. It includes 3-D/2-D magnetic transient, AC electromagnetic, magnetostatic, electrostatic, DC conduction and electric transient solvers to accurately solve for field parameters including force, torque, capacitance, inductance, resistance and impedance.
TECO-Westinghouse is working on dramatic engineering innovations that can have a significant impact on global energy usage and environmental sustainability
Industrial motors are ubiquitous products that work behind the scenes in every production facility around the world. Motors are used in all industrial fields and account for over 68 percent of the electrical energy used in manufacturing and process plants. However, the demand for more reliable, energy-efficient motors that provide higher levels of power and a broader range of performance is challenging the designers and manufacturers of rotating electrical systems. Dramatic innovations in electrical systems are underway to increase the energy efficiency of the millions of industrial motors that power fans, pumps and compressors used around the globe.
The targeted improvements represent a significant percentage of the world’s overall energy usage. A longtime leader in industrial motor design, TECO-Westinghouse continues to produce groundbreaking electrical machines that operate at new levels of speed and energy efficiency.
Ansys Maxwell electric motor simulation further leverages cyclic repeatability by slice-only solving within cyclically repeated non-planar boundary conditions, including auto-extraction of full-model outputs.
Ability to output transient electromagnetic forces from Maxwell into Ansys Motion extends electromagnetic interaction to rigid body dynamics to enhance the overall Noise-Vibration solution.
New Maxwell transient solver provides with multi-terminal conductor support on a single conduction path.
CAPABILITIES
Customizable modeling capabilities, automatic adaptive meshing and advanced high-performance computing technology allow designers to solve complete high-performance electromechanical power systems. Automatically generate nonlinear equivalent circuits and frequency-dependent state-space models from field parameters that may be further used in system and circuit simulation to achieve the highest possible fidelity on SIL (software-in-the-loop) and HIL (hardware-in-the-loop) systems. Ansys simulation technology enables you to predict with confidence that your products will thrive in the real world.
Customers trust our electromagnetic analysis software to help ensure the integrity of their products and drive business success through innovation.
Maxwell is an industry-leading electromagnetic field simulation software for the design and analysis of electric motors, actuators, sensors, transformers and other electromagnetic and electromechanical devices.
A key benefit of Maxwell is its automatic adaptive meshing techniques, which require you to specify only the geometry, material properties and the desired output to obtain an accurate solution. Maxwell’s meshing process uses a highly robust volumetric meshing technique and includes a multithreading capability that reduces the amount of memory used and accelerates time to solution. This proven technology eliminates the complexity of building and refining a finite element mesh and makes advanced numerical analysis practical for all levels of your organization.
Maxwell's electromagnetic field solvers are linked through Ansys Workbench to easily set up and analyze complex coupled-physics behaviors such as deformed mesh feedback structures, stress and strain feedback on magnetic properties, EM fluids and acoustics.
Perform advanced simulation calculations such as core loss calculations, vector hysteresis, four-quadrant simulation for permanent magnets, magnetostriction and magnetoelastic analysis, and manufacturing effects on loss computation.
Electric machines and power converters require significantly different design criteria and simulation, which is why Maxwell provides specialized interfaces for each.
In addition to providing classical motor performance calculations, RMxprt automatically generates geometry, motion and mechanical setup, material properties, core loss, winding and source setup for detailed finite element analysis in Maxwell.
RMxprt's template-based interface for transformers and inductors can automatically create a design from voltage waveform or converter inputs. The autodesign process considers all combinations of core shapes, sizes, materials, gaps, wire types and gauges, and winding strategies to optimize the magnetic design.
