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Workbench Electromagnetics
– Workbench Emag Roadmap
– Design Modeler
• Enclosure Symmetry • Winding bodies • Winding Tool
• Workbench v9.0 is the first release with electromagnetic analysis capability. – Support solid and stranded (wound) conductors – Automated computations of force, torque, inductance, and coil flux linkage. – Easily set up simulations to compute results as a function of current, stroke, or rotor angle.
– Up to 3 three symmetry planes can be specified. – Full or partial models can be included in the Enclosure. – During the model transfer from DesignModeler to Simulation, the enclosure feature with symmetry planes forms two kinds of named selections:
– Winding Bodies: Used to represent wound coils for source excitation. The advantage of these bodies is that they are not 3D CAD objects, and hence simplify modeling/meshing of winding structures.
– Design Modeler
• Enclosure Symmetry • Winding Bodies • Winding Tool
– Simulation
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Workbench Emag Roadmap
• LF Emag capability will be exposed over several release cycles: – 3D Magnetostatics (9.0) – 3D Current conduction (10.0) – 3D Electrostatics Circuit elements – Time transient & 2D
Winding cross-section displayed
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A line body can be promoted to a winding body. Turns and cross-section (CS) dimensions are entered
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– Simulation
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Winding Bodies & Tool
• Feature: Design Modeler (DM) includes two new tools to allow a user to easily create current carrying coils:
ANSYS Workbench 9.0 Electromagnetics
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Workbench Electromagnetics
– Workbench Emag Roadmap
• Fill Tool: Released at 9.0 (Beta at 8.1). Similar function to enclosure, but only fills interior cavities.
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Example of a hemispherical enclosure around an electromagnet
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Workbench Emag Markets
Target markets: • Solenoid actuators • Permanent magnet devices • Sensors • Rotating Electric machines
– Synchronous machines – DC machines – Permanent magnet machines
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Winding Table File
• The Winding Table File can be exported to or imported from a text file.
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– Upon “attach to Simulation”, Winding Bodies are assigned as Conductor bodies.
– Winding Tool: Used to create more complex coils for motor windings. The Winding Tool uses a Worksheet table format to drive the creation of multiply connected Winding Bodies. Or a user can read in a text file created by MSExcel.
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Winding Tool
Each Winding consists a number of related Winding Bodies. The related Winding Bodies are shown in the Parts/Bodies branch:
– Open Domain – Symmetry Plane
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– Workbench Emag Roadmap
– Design Modeler
• Enclosure Symmetry • Winding bodies • Winding Tool
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Winding Tool Example
Winding 1 highlighted with rotor
Complete DC Motor model
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Winding Options
• A skew angle may be identified for the coil winding slots • Many motor designs employ a skewed coil form.
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Winding Slot Clash Detection
– Simulation
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Enclosure & Fill Tools
Design Modeler (DM) includes two features to allow a user to create a volumetric “field” body associated with a solid model.
• Workbench Emag capability is mapped to & accessed via:
– ANSYS Emag (stand alone or enabled task) – ANSYS Multiphysics license keys.
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• Coils may have different radii between IN & OUT slots • Multiple coils may be stacked in the same slot
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Winding Options - Skew
Winding Tool
Complex coil windings may be created using the Winding Tool: • The Winding Tool inserts a “Winding#” into the model tree. • A “Details” view is used for geometric placement.
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Fill Feature