MotorXP

• Inner and outer rotor topologies
• Stator and rotor geometry templates

Stator geometries: Parallel tooth, Parallel slot, General slot
Rotor geometries: Surface mounted, Halbach array, Bread loaf, Straight buried, Spoke

• Custom geometry templates

Create fully parameterized geometry templates for custom stator and rotor geometries of arbitrary complexity

• Stator and rotor geometry can be imported from a DXF-file
• Geometry export to a DXF-file
• Skewed stator and rotor geometries are solved with multi-slice FEA

Useful for cogging torque minimization

• Manual or automatic winding layout for all possible pole/slot combinations
• Different wire sizing methods

AWG, SWG, wire diameter and slot or coil fill factor

• Calculation of different winding parameters

Fundamental winding factor and harmonic winding factors, LCM and GCD of slot number and pole number, phase resistance and end turns inductance

• Materials library and custom materials
• Custom transistors and diodes

These can be added using data sheet parameters for inverter losses calculation

• FEA and analytical analysis methods including ultra-fast hybrid FEA-DQ method.
• Sinewave, PWM and six-step drives are supported.
• All types of losses including eddy current and hysteresis iron losses, magnet losses, retaining sleeve losses, etc.
• Permanent magnet demagnetization analysis.
• Inverter losses calculation for IGBT and MOSFET transistors (including SiC MOSFETs).
• Parametric analysis and optimization API with parallel processing for automatization of the design process.

• Time-series waveform plots and frequency spectrums

Current, voltage, back-EMF, torque, powers, losses, etc.

• Air gap distribution waveform plots and frequency spectrums

Air gap flux density, radial force, etc.

• Field plots and flux contours

Flux density distribution, current density distribution, loss distribution, etc.

• Animated air gap distribution and field plots versus time
• Steady-state performance characteristics taking into account field weakening

Torque vs. speed, torque vs. advance angle, voltage vs. speed, etc.

• Steady-state performance maps

Efficiency maps, losses maps, etc.

• Extraction of the D-Q model parameters (such as Ld, Lq, magnet flux linkage)

These can be used in third-party applications, such as, FEM parameterized PMSM block of Simulink© Simscape

• Id and Iq lookup tables extracted from the efficiency map data

These can be uploaded into controller for optimal motor performance

• Plots exported to Excel, CSV and MAT files

• Based on time-stepping magnetostatic finite element simulations assuming ideal sinusoidal or trapezoidal current waveform
• Calculation of most commonly used motor parameters like voltage, current, powers, back-EMF, torque, power factor, efficiency, losses
• Waveform plots, air gap distribution and field plots as well as animations

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• Based on a conventional model of the motor in D-Q reference frame derived from FEA solutions
• Saturation and cross-saturation are taken into account
• Iron losses are taken into account
• Calculation of steady-state performance characteristics and performance maps including motor and inverter efficiency maps

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• Based on the dynamic model of the motor in D-Q reference frame
• Simulation of the motor with PWM supply and current control algorithm
• PWM and six-step drives are supported

• Most powerful and most accurate of all the analysis methods
• Based on the time-stepping transient finite element simulations
• FEA simulations with coupled electrical circuits
• Arbitrary supply current or voltage waveforms including PWM inverter supply
• Waveform plots, air gap distribution and field plots as well as animations

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• Stator-Rotor, Stator-Rotor-Stator (with yoke or yokeless rotor) and Rotor-Stator-Rotor (with yoke or yokeless stator) topologies
• 3D stator and rotor geometry templates

Stator geometries: Parallel flat slot, Parallel round slot
Rotor geometries: Trapezoidal magnet, Rectangular magnet, Halbach array

• Custom geometry templates

Create fully parameterized 3D geometry templates for custom stator and rotor geometries of arbitrary complexity

• 3D geometry export to a STEP-file
• Concentrated, distributed and toroidal winding types
• Manual or automatic winding layout for all possible pole/slot combinations
• Different wire sizing methods

AWG, SWG, wire diameter and slot or coil fill factor

• Calculation of different winding parameters

Fundamental winding factor and harmonic winding factors, LCM and GCD of slot number and pole number, phase resistance and end turns inductance

• Materials library and custom materials
• Custom transistors and diodes

These can be added using data sheet parameters for inverter losses calculation

• High accuracy and high computational speed quasi-3D finite element modelling approach, around 50 times faster compared to full 3D FEA
• FEA and analytical analysis methods including ultra-fast hybrid FEA-DQ method.
• Sinewave, PWM and six-step drives are supported.
• All types of losses including eddy current and hysteresis iron losses, magnet losses, retaining sleeve losses, etc.
• Permanent magnet demagnetization analysis.
• Inverter losses calculation for IGBT and MOSFET transistors (including SiC MOSFETs).
• Parametric analysis and optimization API with parallel processing for automatization of the design process.

• Time-series waveform plots and frequency spectrums

Current, voltage, back-EMF, torque, powers, losses, etc.

• Air gap distribution waveform plots and frequency spectrums

Air gap flux density, axial direction force, etc.

• Field plots and flux contours

Flux density distribution, current density distribution, loss distribution, etc.

• Animated air gap distribution and field plots versus time
• Machine constants
• Flux density levels in different parts of the machine automatically calculated
• Steady-state performance characteristics taking into account field weakening

Torque vs. speed, torque vs. advance angle, voltage vs. speed, etc.

• Steady-state performance maps

Efficiency maps, losses maps, etc.

• Extraction of the D-Q model parameters (such as Ld, Lq, magnet flux linkage)

These can be used in third-party applications, such as, FEM parameterized PMSM block of Simulink© Simscape

• Id and Iq lookup tables extracted from the efficiency map data

These can be uploaded into controller for optimal motor performance

• Plots exported to Excel, CSV and MAT files

• Based on time-stepping magnetostatic quasi-3D finite element simulations assuming ideal sinusoidal or trapezoidal current waveform
• Calculation of most commonly used motor parameters like voltage, current, powers, back-EMF, torque, power factor, efficiency, losses
• Waveform plots, air gap distribution and field plots as well as animations

click on image to enlarge

• Based on a conventional model of the motor in D-Q reference frame derived from FEA solutions
• Saturation and cross-saturation are taken into account
• Iron losses are taken into account
• Calculation of steady-state performance characteristics and performance maps including motor and inverter efficiency maps

click on image to enlarge

• Based on the dynamic model of the motor in D-Q reference frame
• Simulation of the motor with PWM supply and current control algorithm
• PWM and six-step drives are supported

click on image to enlarge

• Most powerful and most accurate of all the analysis methods
• Based on the time-stepping transient quasi-3D finite element simulations
• FEA simulations with coupled electrical circuits
• Arbitrary supply current or voltage waveforms including PWM inverter supply
• Waveform plots, air gap distribution and field plots as well as animations

click on image to enlarge