Ansys Motor-CAD is a dedicated electric machine design tool for fast multiphysics simulation of motor designs across the full torque-speed operating range. Motor-CAD enables design engineers to evaluate motor topologies and concepts, produce designs that are optimized for performance, efficiency, size, cost, weight, as well as other specifications, and automates the analysis process with built-in electromagnetic, thermal and mechanical solvers.
Motor-CAD models can be transferred to Ansys Maxwell, Ansys Icepak and Ansys Fluent for deep analysis and validation of motor designs. Combining these solvers with Motor-CAD delivers high-fidelity, 2D/3D analysis capability enabling users to analyze end-effects, demagnetization, core loss, hysteresis, and other advanced electromagnetic phenomena, calculate the thermal envelope for operation, and design complete motor cooling systems.
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Product Description
Ansys Motor-CAD is a specialized software tool designed for the rapid and accurate multiphysics simulation of electric machines across their full torque-speed operating range. By integrating electromagnetic, thermal, and mechanical analyses, Motor-CAD enables engineers to evaluate various motor topologies and concepts efficiently, leading to optimized designs in terms of performance, efficiency, and size. Its intuitive, template-based setup and embedded multiphysics expertise streamline the design process, reducing reliance on multiple teams and allowing designers to maintain greater control over their projects.
Key Features and Functionality:
- Integrated Multiphysics Analysis: Motor-CAD combines electromagnetic, thermal, and mechanical simulations, allowing for comprehensive evaluation of electric motor designs.
- Template-Based Design: The software offers extensive geometry templates covering a wide range of electric machine technologies, topologies, and cooling systems, facilitating rapid exploration of design spaces.
- Electromagnetic-Thermal-Control Coupling Simulation: Built-in control algorithms enable virtual testing that accounts for temperature effects during transient drive cycles or steady-state conditions.
- Design for Field Weakening: Motor-CAD allows designers to analyze performance over the entire torque/speed operating range, including field weakening behavior, ensuring optimized performance across all conditions.
- Temperature-Dependent Continuous-Torque and Peak-Torque Simulation: The software enables rapid evaluation of designs against complete multiphysics performance requirements, such as peak and continuous torque/speed characteristics.
- Manufacturing Effects and Housing Interfaces: Motor-CAD includes built-in knowledge to guide engineers in configuring manufacturing effects appropriately and allows for straightforward sensitivity analysis to understand the impact of manufacturing variations on performance.
- Ratio-Based Optimization: The software provides powerful ratio-based optimization capabilities, enabling easy exploration of the design space and evaluation of each candidate design against the complete performance specification.
- Magnetic Force Analysis: Motor-CAD can automatically extract and visualize magnetic forces as a function of time and space over the full operating range, facilitating noise, vibration, and harshness analysis of designs.
- Rotor Stress Analysis: The software offers rapid, automatic finite element analysis -based rotor stress analysis, enabling engineers to optimize rotor designs by balancing electromagnetic performance with mechanical constraints.
Primary Value and Problem Solving:
Ansys Motor-CAD addresses the need for rapid and reliable electric motor design decisions in the face of decreasing development cycles. By providing fast calculations and streamlined data input processes, it allows engineers to explore more motor topologies and fully assess the impact of advanced loss effects early in the design process. This comprehensive approach reduces the reliance on multiple specialized teams, empowering motor designers to maintain greater control over their projects and ensuring that potential issues are identified and resolved early, leading to more efficient and effective product development.
Overview by
Edita Vatenaite (Lead Product Marketing)
