Simcenter MAGNET Electric
2D/3D Electric Field Simulation Software
Simcenter MAGNET Electric (was ElecNet) is the leading 2D/3D electric field simulation software tool. Designers can easily model the most complicated devices and accurately predict their behaviour. Based on finite element analysis methods, MAGNET Electric solves static, AC and transient electric field and current flow problems.
Simcenter MAGNET Electric (was ElecNet) is the leading 2D/3D electric field simulation software tool. Designers can easily model the most complicated devices and accurately predict their behaviour. Based on finite element analysis methods, MAGNET Electric solves static, AC and transient electric field and current flow problems.
Overview
Analyse and predict the performance of:
Analyse and predict the performance of:
- Transformers
- Insulation Systems
- EMC Compatibility
- Bus Bars
- MEMS
- High Voltage Components
- Shielding
- Cables
- Capacitive Sensors/NDT
- Many more.
MAGNET Electric uses the finite element method to solve for the electric field strength, forces, capacitances and other quantities. Each module is tailored to simulate different types of electric fields and is available separately for both 2D & 3D designs.
Static fields
Current Flow
Transient or Time-varying electric fields
AC or Time Harmonic electric fields
Common Solver Features
Static fields
- Simulates static electric fields produced by specified DC voltages and charge distributions
- Supports floating conductors
Current Flow
- Simulates the DC current distribution produced by specified DC voltages on electrodes in contact with conducting material
Transient or Time-varying electric fields
- Simulates transient electric fields produced by transient voltages
- Non-linear permittivity and conductivity
- Accounts for displacement currents
- Supports floating conductors
- Electrical conduction and lossy dielectrics
- Second-order time stepping
- Resume Feature: pause at a particular time step for inspection
AC or Time Harmonic electric fields
- Simulates electric fields produced by specified AC voltages
- Analysis based on a single frequency using phasors (complex domain)
- Accounts for displacement currents
- Supports floating conductors
- Electrical conduction and lossy dielectrics
Common Solver Features
- All solvers are multithreaded for true multicore support
- Symmetry for reducing solution domain
- Parametric Module for "What if?" analysis
- Coupling with MAGNET Thermal
- Optimization with MAGNET Design Optimisation
Reasons to Choose Our Service
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- 1Geometric Modellery
- Easy to use Extrusion-Based and Solid Modelling tools make even the most complicated designs quick and painless to draw.
- 3D ACIS Modeler from Spatial, with DXF/SAT imported natively.
- Additional filters allow CAD files to be imported efficiently, including the coils. Formats include STEP, CATIA, Pro/E, IGES
- Full Boolean operations and multi-sweep functions for complex geometries
- 2Material Library
- Pre-defined library of linear, nonlinear and anisotropic materials
- Advanced loss computation based on Steinmetz equation
- User-defined materials easily added with Material Editor & curve fitting utilities
- Simple Drag-and-Drop applies a material to any part of the model, which is then stored with the model.
- 3Meshing & Adaption
- Adaptive strategy determines where refinements are needed after each step by:
- Subdividing elements (2D/3D)
- Increasing the polynomial order (3D)
- Both techniques combined (3D)
- Mesh layers for skin depth analysis and highly anisotropic volume elements
- Separate mesh for coupled thermal problems (with ThermNet)
- Motion Re-mesh region for more efficient meshing process
- Extensive manual meshing control.
- Adaptive strategy determines where refinements are needed after each step by:
- 4Parametric Studies & What-if Analysis
- Perform multiple experiments for "What if?" analysis
- Any quantity can be parameterised (e.g. geometric features, materials, mesh settings) and can be varied through a user-specified range of values
- Multi-parameter solutions, with automatic display of solution vs. Parameter values (including animations).
- 5Customisation & Interoperability
- Powerful scripting allows MAGNET Electric to work with any programming environment that implements ActiveX scripting and OLE Automation (such as Visual Basic Script, Java Script, Perl, etc.).
- MAGNET Electric can then be coupled to any Active-X compliant application such as Microsoft Office, Matlab, MathCad, AutoCAD etc.
- 6ScriptingScripting
- Automate repetitive tasks
- Link to third party software such as Excel® or MatLab®
- Customize MAGNET Electric for your need.
- 7Results - Quantities, Fields & Charts
- Electric Field Intensity (E)
- Voltage
- Electric Energy
- Flux Density
- Force
- Net Current Flow
- Power Loss
- Displacement Field
- Current density
- Conductivity
- Resistance and capacitance matrices of electrodes
- And more.
- 8Post-ProcessingAll of the data is available in a variety of formats and easily accessible with the Post-Processing and Project toolbars:
- Detailed field visualizations
- Charts
- Field probing
- Export to Excel.
The Trajectory Evaluator is used with MAGNET and MAGNET Electric to simulate the path of one or more particles while under the influence of electromagnetic or electric fields.
Typical applications which require combining field solutions with particle trajectory calculations include: beams (electron and ion guns), filtration, precipitators, ion traps, deflector plates and more.
The particles are first characterized by specifying the following parameters:
Typical applications which require combining field solutions with particle trajectory calculations include: beams (electron and ion guns), filtration, precipitators, ion traps, deflector plates and more.
The particles are first characterized by specifying the following parameters:
- Initial force and force direction
- Charge
- Mass
- Energy
- Dynamic Coefficient of Viscosity (drag force)
- Optionally account for relativistic effects
- Angle
- Particle Position (chart)
- Particle Velocity (chart)
- Particle Acceleration (chart)
- Position, Velocity and Acceleration at each time step (text file)
- Trace of particle's trajectory
- MAGNET 3D magnetostatic, time harmonic (AC) or transient solver
- MAGNET Electric 3D electrostatic solver
- A combination of magnetostatic and electrostatic fields
Based on a long research and development at Dresdner University of Technology in Germany from the early 1990, OptiY GmbH has been founded in 2006. The mission is to develop and promote the software OptiY® and to help all engineers making their product development better, faster and cheaper.
OptiY® is an open and multidisciplinary design environment providing most modern optimization strategies and state of the art probabilistic algorithms for uncertainty, reliability, robustness, sensitivity analysis, fatigue life prediction, data-mining and meta-modeling. The simulation system can be considered as black box with inputs and outputs. Within, it is an open platform for different kind of model classes. The adaptation to a special simulation environment takes place by a suitable interface. Collaborating different simulation systems is possible as networks, finite-element-method, rigid body dynamics, also material test bench as control optimization for drives. Use OptiY with MagNet to perform optimization and sensitivity analysis on any electromagnetic device.
Two case studies, Robust Design of Induction Motor and Tolerance Analysis of Surge Arrester, which demonstrates the linking of these products, can be viewed on OptiY's web site.
Contact Information:
Friedrich-Bergius-Ring 15
97076 Wuerzburg
Germany
E-mail
info@optiy.eu
Website
http://www.optiy.eu
Telephone
49 (93 05) 988 - 9425
Fax
49 (93 05) 988 - 9427
OptiY® is an open and multidisciplinary design environment providing most modern optimization strategies and state of the art probabilistic algorithms for uncertainty, reliability, robustness, sensitivity analysis, fatigue life prediction, data-mining and meta-modeling. The simulation system can be considered as black box with inputs and outputs. Within, it is an open platform for different kind of model classes. The adaptation to a special simulation environment takes place by a suitable interface. Collaborating different simulation systems is possible as networks, finite-element-method, rigid body dynamics, also material test bench as control optimization for drives. Use OptiY with MagNet to perform optimization and sensitivity analysis on any electromagnetic device.
Two case studies, Robust Design of Induction Motor and Tolerance Analysis of Surge Arrester, which demonstrates the linking of these products, can be viewed on OptiY's web site.
Contact Information:
Friedrich-Bergius-Ring 15
97076 Wuerzburg
Germany
info@optiy.eu
Website
http://www.optiy.eu
Telephone
49 (93 05) 988 - 9425
Fax
49 (93 05) 988 - 9427
Applications
A few of the Applications pages specifically cover the use of MAGNET Electric, namely:
A few of the Applications pages specifically cover the use of MAGNET Electric, namely:
| Application Name | Model Available |
MagNet | ElecNet | ThermNet | OptiNet | Other |
| Yes | Yes | |||||
| Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||
| Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||
Simulating particle filtration with an electrostatic precipitator |
Yes | Yes | Trajectory Evaluator | |||
| Yes | Yes | |||||
| Yes | ||||||
| Yes | Trajectory Evaluator | |||||
Simulating a charged particle entering a quadrupole ion trap |
Yes | Trajectory Evaluator | ||||
| Yes | Yes | Yes |