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Automation is conquering more and more areas, both in the real world, for example in the form of handling robots, and in the virtual world. Many software packages make it possible to set up workflows that digitally map processes and fire actions s...

Future e-motors must be developed to fulfil more and higher requirements originating from internal, legal and customer sources. Failure to fulfill design targets will negatively affect the product competitiveness in the market.

Speaker systems are practically mandatory in automobiles today as they are a big part of the modern features that resonate with quality, user experience and luxury. The article - originally published by SIA on issue #874 of "Ingénieurs de l'auto"...

Digital technology has changed the landscape of manufacturing and product creation: Internet of Things (IoT), artificial intelligence (AI), and data analytics are connecting organizations, generating data, driving more intelligent operations, and ...

Contemporary automotive market demand has led to a wealth of new applications requiring strong performance in cost-effective optical systems. Requirements for these systems require modern software capability for both optical design and engineering...

The International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection (ICNIRP) has published on March 2020 an update of the guidelines for limiting exposure to electromagnetic fields (100 kHz to 300 GHz). This white paper describes how to evaluate the...

High-performance computing (HPC) has emerged as an essential technology in modern design and development environments. Driven by increased competitive pressures, manufacturers increasingly compete based on their computer-aided engineering (CAE) and HPC infrastructure environments.

Deploying and m

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) systems use electromagnetic (EM) waveform transmissions to illuminate objects, and images are created from processing reflections or echoes. SAR systems are now widely deployed to support critical remote mapping/sens...

In this paper, we illustrate a simulation-driven workflow process using Altair HyperWorks Suite for antennas to meet environmental specifications during the design process so time taken for test and certification can be minimized and thus, cost sa...

The International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection (ICNIRP) has published in March 2020 an update [1] of the guidelines for limiting exposure to electromagnetic fields (100 kHz to 300 GHz). This white paper describes how to evaluate...

Solve pressure oscillation problems with rapid analysis of acoustic behavior of arbitrary pipe (and hose) networks through DSHplus & Altair HyperStudy.

In a joint project MX3D, ABB, and Altair demonstrated how a 3D printed robot can be improved by using a digital twin process to achieve more precise positioning.

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 ...

Fairshare is a powerful tool for sharing resources and allocating a set amount of your cluster to entities like users, groups, and projects. This white paper will get you up and running with basic fairshare on Altair PBS Professional.

In the race to deliver safe new vehicles, efficient and accurate simulation of structural performance under different crash scenarios is a key alternative costly physical testing. With growing model complexity, the demand for CPUs is increasing. To assure a fast job
turnaround time, HPC and solver

Today, an e-motor cannot be developed just by looking at the motor as an isolated unit; tight requirements concerning the integration into both the complete electric or hybrid drivetrain system and perceived quality must be met. Multi-disciplinary...

A look at three challenges facing the automotive industry and illustrate how an engineered, highly efficient CFD workflow is helping companies meet them.

Abstract- The paper presents a FEM approach for studying the influence of the capacitor value on the magnetic noise of a network and inverter-fed permanent split-capacitor induction motor. A 4 pole, 24 stator slots and 30 rotor slots, induction mo...

Elimination of hot spots and reduction of eddy current losses in structural parts is one of the important constituents of transformer design. In this work, the eddy current losses in the clamping frame, transformer tank and electromagnetic shieldi...

This paper presents a study on the influence of the discretisation of the inductance curves on a detailed coupled circuit model of a synchronous generator with a damper winding and search coils. The self and mutual inductances of all coupled circ...

This paper describes the effect of air-gap variation on performance of a 28 pole axial flux permanent magnet motor (AFPM) with concentrated stator winding. The AFPM is modeled using three-dimensional finite-element method. This model includes all ...

Thermal analysis is a key factor when designing motors. We propose to link the studies of
electromagnetic and thermal aspects in transient application with Finite Element Method (FEM) to
represent the thermal state of motor with higher accuracy. As electromagnetic response time is
different of th

ABSTRACT. Temperature control of magnetic controllers (concentrators, cores, shields,
shunts) is an essential part of the induction coil design. Prediction and study of the coil
copper have been described in a presentation “Influence of Cooling Conditions on Induction
Coil Copper Temperatures” (V

Flux Conference 2012 presentation

This paper presents an adapted partial element equivalent circuit (PEEC)-based methodology applied to the modeling of interconnections of power electronics devices. Although this method is already well known, the originality of this work is its us...

In the present paper, two simulation strategies for tube induction welding
process are presented. Coupled electromagnetic and thermal problem is solved by applying
three-dimensional FEM models. The resulting power density and temperature distribution are
compared. Reported strategies can be used

In recent years, an innovative DC induction heating concept has been proposed in order to
increase the efficiency of the induction heating of low electrical resistivity metal billets [1-3].
In this approach the billet is forced to rotate inside a transverse DC magnetic field by means
of an electr

Presented at the 2015 Flux Conference

Maplesoft has developed a MapleSim library of components, transmission sub-assemblies, and complete powertrain examples that show the use of these components in driveline applications. Built with guidance from several transmission manufacturers, t...

The field of energy storage is extremely active with a constant stream of innovations being deployed to address some major design challenges. At the heart of this activity is the commercial drive to increase energy density (energy stored per unit ...

Learn more about how MapleSim is uniquely designed to handle sophisticated systems to minimize your development time and costs.

Robotic technology has improved dramatically in the past decade, and applications are getting more exciting as well. Robots are cool again, and for engineers, designing the new generation of robots is one of the most exciting types of projects. Wh...

This paper discusses the behavior of a flexible flap at the rear end of a generic car model under
aerodynamic loads. A strong bidirectional coupling between the flap’s deflection and the flow
field exists which requires this system to be simulated in a coupled fluid-structure manner.

PBS Professional provides the user with an interface to submit jobs to a queue, which will be considered by the scheduler and dispatched to computational resources in a cluster, supercomputer, or cloud. This default configuration has no restrictio...

Semiconductor companies typically run jobs by queuing them up, then using a job scheduler to dispatch them onto available cores in server farms while pulling EDA tool licenses from a license server. There are two primary goals facing organizations...

We worked with the team at the U.K.'s STFC Hartree Centre to assess and improve the performance of a number of commonly used HPC applications. They used Altair Breeze™ to profile and improve DL_POLY, a general-purpose classical molecular dynamics ...

Diamond Light Source is the UK’s national synchrotron or particle accelerator. It works like a giant microscope, harnessing the power of electrons to produce bright light that scientists can use to study anything from fossils to jet engines to vir...

Enabled by improvements in security, new instance types, and fast interconnects, high-performance computing (HPC) users are increasingly shifting workloads to the cloud. With cloud usage increasing, however, managing and containing costs is a grow...

This paper presents an overview of the work by the Wellcome Sanger Institute to make one of their cancer pipelines portable and to tune it for cloud deployment using the Altair Breeze™ and Altair Mistral™ I/O profiling tools. With the insight from...

The PBS Professional scheduler provides many different methods for optimizing scheduling. Placement sets, also referred to as topology-aware scheduling, can be used to group nodes together based on a shared characteristic to help optimize job perf...