Improving Electric Vehicle Range with Advanced Losses Computation Considering PWM Across a Full Duty Cycle

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.

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.

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.

In this workshop, you will learn how Altair Compose and Altair Activate can be used to represent mechatronic systems using holistic functional simulation and will get insights in various case studies. One tool for performing calculations and manipulating and visualizing data, including CAE and test results, is Altair Compose - an all-in-one environment that enables a wide range of mathematical operations. It also supports process automation and scripting for recurring calculations. Using multidisciplinary system simulation, Altair Activate enables customers to understand the overall system behavior of their product earlier and evaluate important interactions between components and subsystems. The combination of signal-based and physical modeling forms the basis for end-to-end use throughout the development lifecycle - from early concept through detailed design to hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) testing.

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.

ABB, MX3D, and Altair demonstrate how Industry 4.0 will deliver customized manufacturing equipment.

Complex devices such as surgical robots, autoinjector etc go through several validation and verification phases that can increase product development time. The interconnected devices also pose a challenge for model exchange and collaboration.​ This webinar presents Altair’s model-based development (MBD) platform to drive fast development for smart connected systems. Explore more by combining mechanical models with electrical models leveraging multi-disciplinary simulation.

Altair Inspire Motion is a dedicated multi-body dynamics (MBD) tool with a robust contact algorithm. It is capable of handling systems with large degrees of freedom and offers a reliable and fast solution. In this webinar, we showed how Altair Inspire Motion had been used to determine loads in the system and is seamlessly coupled with other Altair modeling tools like Altair Inspire Structure and Altair Activate for control simulation to create dynamic motion analyses of complex mechanisms and use these dynamic loads as load cases for optimization.

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.

Electromagnetic and Thermal Simulation of PMSM (IPM) Motor

Rated Torque Simulation of IPM Motor Using Altair Flux

Replacement of traditional combustion engines with an electric powertrain, bring electro-mechanical induced tonal and high-frequency whine noise. In addition, tire and aerodynamic turbulent noise become more prominent in the absence of a standard Internal Combustion Engine. Also, the perceived sound quality imposes a new set of challenges. This leads to completely new methods of NVH refinement, keeping the decades of research aside. As it is important to address these issues at the design and development stage, adopting the new simulation techniques to manage future NVH challenges in e-Mobility is of the prime challenge to the traditional NVH engineers. In this webinar, we shall discuss some of those key NVH challenges specific to electric vehicles and appropriate simulation processes to develop countermeasures.

Traction Motor play key role in the electric vehicle/hybrid electric vehicle (EV/HEV) development process. 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.

Learn how Activate serves as Altair’s open integration platform for multi-disciplinary system simulation involving mechanical dynamics, controls, hydraulics, thermal effects, electronics, electromagnetics, and more. 1D diagrams can be built using either a signal-based approach or a physical modeling approach based on the Modelica and SPICE standards or both. Hybrid simulations can involve continuous time and discrete events. Models can be linearized for analysis in the frequency domain. Mixed models combining 1D+3D can be constructed and simulated by using the Functional Mockup Interface (FMI) standard. All tools are built-in; no extra-cost add-ons are required.

In order to improve low-frequency truck ride comfort, it is important to derive optimal Cab/Chassis Suspension & Damping values by evaluating the vehicle vibration characteristics caused by road surface condition. In this study, the ISO 8608 standard road profiles are implemented using Compose and MotionSolve. The vibration characteristics and the effect of design parameters are studied. The ride comfort performance is evaluated using the ISO 2631. Heavy Duty Truck (10x4 Cargo, Payload 25ton) is constructed with a flexible multi-body dynamics model using MotionSolve. The Quarter Car and Half Car’s vibration models are constructed with Compose and MotionSolve and the possibility of preliminary ride comfort evaluation was studied.

Nowadays, it is more and more challenging to design an e-motor. Many constraints have to be fulfilled, including maximizing power using minimal size, considering thermal constraints, material and production costs, and of course reducing weight. In order to meet these constraints, a multifaceted solution is needed, leveraging physics tools in combination with optimization methods. This webinar will introduce Altair's e-motor design and optimization solutions in a step by step process. We will discuss pre-design, magnetic computation and thermal analysis and show how optimization methods can help to optimize weight and cost at each step of the process (especially the weight of magnets) . We’ll demonstrate how Design Of Experiments (DOEs) allows designers to run different types of optimization very quickly, which enables informed decisions at different stage of the design cycle.

At Elaphe, the engineers have been facing the NVH challenges from the very beginning. The topology of this electric motor, which on the one hand enables the team to use the otherwise empty space inside the wheel, can on the other hand, result in some new and unexplored NVH challenges. The experience over the years has proven that NVH is a bottleneck in the design cycle of Elaphe's motors and this was the main motivation for a more automated and more user-friendly NVH simulation workflow. Within the NVH, noise radiation was the area Elaphe was most interested in.

Given EVs are gaining momentum and the recent Govt. of India’s strict localization norms in EVs to avail incentives, Altair announces a 3-part webinar series to introduce its powerful and most comprehensive industry solution set for E-mobility from concept till end use. Open to startups, OEM and supplier alike, we invite you to join our 3-part live webinar series. We will discuss the various challenges in EV systems and how Altair solutions play an important role in the design & development stage. Namely, how you can cut down development time and cost while improving your designs, how you can rapidly prototype your ideas, tame the complexities involved in a highly complex system and lots more. We will highlight some unique challenges for EVs specific to India and discuss how to address them.

Discover Altair SimLab's automated workflow for coupled electromagnetic and vibration analysis. SimLab uses Altair Flux for electromagnetic analysis and Altair OptiStruct for vibro-acoustic simulation.

Light-weight, low cost, compact, high efficiency are some of the many objectives and constraints that have to be considered when designing a rotating machine. To meet these various challenges it is necessary to take into account several physical aspects: - electromagnetic - structural - thermal This presentation shows how Altair HyperStudy can involve several Altair solvers to consider different requirements into a single optimization and will be illustrated through various examples.

Because of always more compact and high efficiency systems, temperature is a critical constraint in electric machine design. Depending on the design stage, different levels of modeling can be proposed: - 1D for fast pre-design, to - full 3D CFD models for the validation stage. This presentation shows, through a complete example how the Altair platform for innovation helps machine designers to manage temperature distribution and evolution.

In the early stage of the design of an electric machine, it is key to assess its potential in terms of global energy efficiency when submitted to specific duty cycles. This presentation will show how: - FluxMotor is able to extract efficiency maps in a very fast way. - FluxMotor can be coupled to Altair HyperStudy for design exploration and optimization studies, considering the efficiency over duty cycles as an objective function to be maximized.

In this webinar ‘RohrLEx’, FLUIDON piping expert, explains the relationship between pressure pulsations and pipeline problems and the advantages in using differently specialized software for this process of optimization. So, he presents both an automatic analysis of pressure pulsations in piping systems with DSHplus and HyperStudy as well as the integration of a control created in Activate.

Discover a highly robust approach to simulate the performance of your entire product; assess the overall behavior of the multi-disciplinary system in the form of 0D, 1D and/or 3D models.

Altair Flux is a leading finite element simulation software for electromagnetic modeling. Used for more than 35 years in industry worldwide, and based on the most advanced numerical techniques, Flux has become a reference for the high accuracy it delivers. Altair also recently introduced Altair FluxMotor, a new tool for the pre-design of electric machines. In a very intuitive interface, it allows defining a machine from templates, creating its winding, and characterizing its performance in a few clicks. In this webinar, discover all the new features in the latest versions of Flux and FluxMotor.

This webinar outlines how 1D block diagrams can be successfully combined with 3D non-linear multibody systems for model based development of mechatronic systems. Examples include an active suspension systems and a robotics application.

Flux is now fully part of HyperWorks and thanks to our flexible HyperWorks Units, users are now able to access even more tools that will help you to save time in your designs and enable powerful simulations. Flux embeds its own pre-preprocessing tools but designers sometimes need to deal with complex 3D geometries generated by their CAD team.

Electromagnetic phenomenon may induce undesired effects such as heat or vibrations. To predict and correct them by simulation, it is necessary to couple all phenomenon. Altair HyperWorks software suite is a perfect solution for this and in this webinar, two use cases will be demonstrated, where Flux is coupled with OptiStruct and AcuSolve.

This 25-minute webinar covers the material characterization and optimization of a radar dome (radome) build out of carbon and fiberglass. Also to be discussed is the design and optimization of a radar antenna and the simulation of a radar integrated behind the radome and wing structure.

This webinar covers the complete fail-safe optimization process of a wing rib starting with the search of a new and more efficient design to the calculation of optimum dimensions. The replacement of a metallic fitting by an organic 3D printed version, while increasing performances and decreasing mass reduction is discussed as well. HyperStudy has also been used to perform multi-disciplinary studies throughout the process.

Altair’s AcuSolve CFD solver is capable of simulating complex multiphysics phenomenon including Heat Transfer-CFD coupling. In this webinar, two use cases are presented, using two very different calculation approaches.

This short webinar will discuss coupling of aerodynamics loading, structures vibration, mechanisms deployment and hydraulics actuation in the simulation of a high lift device. This session also includes the simulation of structure loads and actuation efficiency during flight maneuvers. A fatigue analysis ensures the longevity of the new design.

Activate 2017 enables product creators, system simulation and control engineers to model, simulate and optimize multi-disciplinary systems to ensure that all design requirements are successfully met while also identifying system level problems early in the design process. By attending this webinar, you will learn about hybrid dynamical systems (systems containing continuous-time and discrete-time dynamics) and how they can be modeled rigorously in Activate 2017.

Altair’s MotionSolve is a powerful multi-body solution to help simulate mechatronic systems. Integration with solidThinking Activate allows a user to model control systems, actuators and sensors in a convenient block diagram environment while coupled with MotionSolve via co-simulation. Models in MotionSolve can be linearized for classic control system design, and its powerful non-linear capabilities helps you model critical effects, ranging from friction, to component flexibility, to contact between colliding bodies. Additional capabilities for integration with Fortran/C/Python, and support for Modelica and Functional Mock-up Interface standards allows different domains and third-party tools to be used as needed. Finally, integration with other HyperWorks tools allow you to drive your simulations with a model-based design approach.

First out of 6 multi-body dynamics webinars presented by Rajiv Rampalli. He is giving an overview over Altairs solutions and provides many examples and talks about how customers are using Altair solutions for their MBD needs.

This webinar will give an overview and update on the EM simulation solutions (FEKO, Flux and WinProp) in HyperWorks for the aerospace industry and its segments covering applications and real use cases from antenna design and placement, EMC, RCS and wave propagation to electric machines, actuators and sensors and high power equipment.

The 14.0 release of Altair’s Multi-body solution contains three major capabilities that span across modeling, analysis, post-processing and optimization: - 3D contact - Geometric and material nonlinear finite elements - Advanced Driver and Road For Vehicle Simulation Additionally, the ability to create complex, nonlinear systems to evaluate the dynamic behavior of systems, study vibration isolation, and design control systems, has now been expanded. The next generation of model-based development products (solidThinking Compose, Activate and Embed) will be previewed in this session, explaining how to lead product design with system modeling.

Understand FEM design concepts behind building a Green Taxiing System and other similar electromechanical devices to help airlines save on fuel costs and cut C02 emissions.

During this 30 minute on-demand webinar discover how actuators are replacing standard hydraulic motors and how to optimize your design.

In this webinar we discuss and illustrate how electromagnetic simulating technology enables a flexible new alternative solution for electromagnetic transmission, with electromagnetic couplings replacing mechanical and differential couplers.