SimLab Tutorial Summary: 2D SPM Motor Brushless

Description

This tutorial shows how to use SimLab to design and run electromagnetic analysis with Flux solver for electric motors. The studied device, a brushless DC motor with surface permanent magnet, includes the following elements:

• a fixed part (stator) including yoke, slots, and windings
• an air gap
• a movable part (rotor) with surfaced magnets

In this tutorial, three typical transient magnetic analyses are defined to evaluate the motor performance:

• Analysis 1: Computation of the cogging torque
• Analysis 2: Back Electromotive Force
• Analysis 3: Constant speed

Note: The geometry model is built by the Sketch of SimLab

Analysis 1: Computation of the cogging torque

Analysis 2: Back Electromotive Force

Analysis 3: Constant speed

Example access

All files corresponding to this example are accessible in the Knowledge Base in Altair community:

• to follow the example step by step, the corresponding files are in "Example_name_StepByStep" folder containing:
  • Tutorial folder: contains the document describing the example step by step
  • InitialFiles folder: contains *.slb databases and files needed to build the example step by step
• to play scripts and retrieve SimLab and Flux project, the corresponding files are in "Example_name_PlayScripts" folder containing:
  • ScriptsTutorial folder: contains script files to be able to play each analysis
  • Input folder: contains initial *.slb databases and all necessary files to play each analysis script
  • Output folder: empty (contains the obtained results after the script execution)