Altair Flux™ 2022 Documentation
Altair Flux™ 2022 Documentation

2022

  1. Home
  2. Flux

    Flux is a finite element software for low-frequency electromagnetic and thermal simulations. Both, 2D and 3D solutions are available...

  3. Physical applications

    Flux allows to model different physical phenomena, and includes various applications (magnetic, electrical, thermal and thermal coupled).

  4. Magnetic applications: software aspects
  5. Region (for magnetic applications)
  • User guide
  • What's new?
  • "How to" Documents
  • Flux Supervisor
  • Flux
  • Flux Skew
  • Flux PEEC
  • Material Identification
  • Material Manager
  • Flux e-Machine Toolbox
  • Flux Examples
  • Flux in SimLab Examples
  • Mementos
  • Macros
  • PyFlux Documentation (Beta version)
  • Flux installation guide
  • Quick Start CDE
Altair Flux™ 2022 Documentation

2022

Altair Flux™ 2022 Documentation
  • User guide

    The user guide gives information about principles and how to use Altair Flux™ 2022.

  • What's new?

    See the release notes of the last and previous versions, with the necessary information on new features.

  • "How to" Documents

    See a list of documents to understand how to use certain features.

  • Flux Supervisor

    The Flux supervisor allows to run projects, examples, pythons scripts; to configure user preferences; to access tools...

  • Flux

    Flux is a finite element software for low-frequency electromagnetic and thermal simulations. Both, 2D and 3D solutions are available...

    • General operation

      Here is a presentation of the Flux environment; the project management, the data management, the command language, the formulas and mathematical functions.

    • Construction of a Flux project

      The construction of a Flux project consists of several stages: Geometry → Mesh → Physics → Resolution → Postprocessing; with the possibility to import a CAD file, a mesh, materials...

    • Physical applications

      Flux allows to model different physical phenomena, and includes various applications (magnetic, electrical, thermal and thermal coupled).

      • Physics: principles
      • Magnetic applications: principles
      • Magnetic applications: software aspects
        • Magnetic application: definition
        • Change of application
        • Multiplying coefficient for computation of flux through coils
        • Formulation: general aspects
        • Formulation: automatic mode / user mode
        • Finite element computation, approximation functions

        • Physical region
        • Assignment of regions to geometric entities
        • Region (for magnetic applications)
          • Magneto Static region: about
          • Magneto Static volume (3D) / face (2D) region
          • Magneto Static face (3D) / line (2D) region
          • Magneto Static line (3D) / point (2D) region
          • Transient Magnetic region: about
          • Transient Magnetic volume (3D) / face (2D) region
          • Transient Magnetic face (3D) / line (2D) region
          • Transient Magnetic line (3D) / point (2D) region
          • Steady State AC Magnetic region: about
          • Steady State AC Magnetic volume (3D) / face (2D) region
          • Steady State AC Magnetic face (3D) / line (2D) region
          • Steady State AC Magnetic line (3D) / point (2D) region
        • Cut of electric loop
        • Cut of magnetic circuit
        • Non-meshed coil
        • Magnetic 2D applications (without circuit): sequence of commands
        • Magnetic 2D applications (with circuit): sequence of commands
        • Magnetic 3D applications (without circuit): sequence of commands
        • Magnetic 3D applications (with circuit): sequence of commands
        • Computation of iron losses
      • Electric applications: principles
      • Electric applications: software aspects
      • Thermal applications: principles
      • Thermal applications: software aspects
      • Coupled applications: principles
    • Circuit and Kinematic Couplings

      Flux is coupled to a circuit context allowing to model the sources of the devices.Flux also allow to model the movement via a kinematic coupling.

    • Co-simulation between Flux and another software

      Flux is able to couple with several softwares allowing to model mutliphysics phenomena.

    • Dedicated couplings

      Several dedicated couplings are implemented in Flux to, carry out vibro-acoustic studies, magneto-thermal studies and more.

    • 3D Overlay

      Flux has predefined models for rotating machines via Overlays allowing to describe a geometry, a mesh and a physics adapted to the wished machine.

    • Flux API

  • Flux Skew

    Flux Skew is a module allowing to facilitate the realization of a quasi 3D or 2 ½ D study starting from a 2D description.

  • Flux PEEC

    Flux PEEC is a 3D modeling module dedicated to electrical interconnections of power electronics devices. It also provides RLC extraction and generation of SPICE-like equivalent circuits.

  • Material Identification

    Flux provides a unified Material Identification tool based on the Altair Compose environment allowing to run an identification of the coefficients required to create material in Flux.

  • Material Manager

    Flux has a material manager with its own material base.The user can create his own material base and import them into the Flux models to be studied.

  • Flux e-Machine Toolbox

    FeMt is a application in Flux dedicated for Electric Machine which permits to compute and postprocess results like efficiency maps.

  • Flux Examples

    See the lists of examples 2D, 3D, SKEW and PEEC with all available documents and all project and python files.

  • Flux in SimLab Examples

    See the lists of 2D and 3D SimLab examples using the Flux solver, with all available documents, *.slb databases and all script files.

  • Mementos

    See a list of Memento documents to understand certain Flux features.

  • Macros

    Flux proposes several macros enabling doing actions that are not yet implemented in Flux.

  • PyFlux Documentation (Beta version)

    This documentation deals with the Jython script used in Flux and allows to understand the various structures of entities and functions, and use it in user scripts for example.

  • Flux installation guide

    This document provides instructions for Flux installation on supported platforms.

  • Quick Start CDE

    This document guides you through using Computing Distribution Engine.

Altair Flux™ 2022 Documentation
Altair Flux™ 2022 Documentation

2022

  1. Home
  2. Flux

    Flux is a finite element software for low-frequency electromagnetic and thermal simulations. Both, 2D and 3D solutions are available...

  3. Physical applications

    Flux allows to model different physical phenomena, and includes various applications (magnetic, electrical, thermal and thermal coupled).

  4. Magnetic applications: software aspects
  5. Region (for magnetic applications)
  • User guide
  • What's new?
  • "How to" Documents
  • Flux Supervisor
  • Flux
  • Flux Skew
  • Flux PEEC
  • Material Identification
  • Material Manager
  • Flux e-Machine Toolbox
  • Flux Examples
  • Flux in SimLab Examples
  • Mementos
  • Macros
  • PyFlux Documentation (Beta version)
  • Flux installation guide
  • Quick Start CDE

Region (for magnetic applications)

Notions

General knowledge:

Region: about

Region: definition (structure)

Regions for Magneto Static applications

Magneto Static region: about

Magneto Static volume (3D) / face (2D) region

Magneto Static face (3D) / line (2D) region

Magneto Static line (3D) / point (2D) region

Regions for Transient Magnetic applications

Transient Magnetic region: about

Transient Magnetic volume (3D) / face (2D) region

Transient Magnetic face (3D) / line (2D) region

Transient Magnetic line (3D) / point (2D) region

Regions for Steady state AC Magnetic applications

Steady State AC Magnetic region: about

Steady State AC Magnetic volume (3D) / face (2D) region

Steady State AC Magnetic face (3D) / line (2D) region

Steady State AC Magnetic line (3D) / point (2D) region

Management

Commands of creation, modification and deletion:

New

Edit

Edit array

Delete / Force delete

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