Maximize your understanding of electromagnetic phenomena with Ansys Maxwell’s cutting-edge low-frequency electromagnetic simulation capabilities. Explore nonlinear, transient motion effects on drive circuit and control system designs, utilizing Maxwell’s advanced electromagnetic field solvers. Seamlessly link integrated circuit and systems simulation technology to gain insights into electromechanical system performance early in the design phase.
Ansys Maxwell’s slice-only technology revolutionizes cyclic repeatability simulations for electric motor applications. By efficiently solving motor slices with non-planar boundary conditions and symmetric mesh, Maxwell delivers accurate results replicated across the full model. Explore how “slice-only” technology helps simulate complex electric motors from this blog: How to Model and Simulate Complex Electric Motors.
Ansys Maxwell offers a trusted simulation of low-frequency electromagnetic fields in industrial components. It includes 3-D/2-D magnetic transient, AC electromagnetic, magnetostatic, electrostatic, DC conduction, and electric transient solvers to accurately solve for field parameters including force, torque, capacitance, inductance, resistance, and impedance.
January 2024 Release
Conduct NVH analysis on complex flex and rigid PCBs. Ansys Maxwell’s new meshing technology enables ECAD of 3D layout components and MCAD assemblies, enabling electronic engineers to predict EM forces and losses for efficient PCB thermal and NVH analysis.
Elevate the accuracy of EM field computation for EMI/EMC and magnetic shielding with shell elements modeling. This advancement expedites design optimization while enhancing computational efficiency for thermal and EM coupling analysis, particularly in EM heating systems.
Ansys Maxwell’s latest capability enhances the accuracy of electric arc simulations, reducing simulation time in power electronics applications, especially for topologies featuring thin layers of conductors.
From concept design to detailed electromagnetics, thermal, and mechanical analysis, Ansys electric motor design software facilitates comprehensive analysis of electric motors.
Solve complex design challenges efficiently with simulation tools, improving performance and fostering innovation in power electronics systems.
Ansys wireless power transfer solutions integrate magnetic, thermal, and electrical system performance, offering comprehensive simulation for wireless chargers.
Ansys Maxwell simulation provides customizable modeling capabilities, automatic adaptive meshing, and advanced high-performance computing technology. Designers can seamlessly solve complete high-performance electromechanical power systems, enhancing efficiency and reducing time-to-market.
Maxwell facilitates the automatic generation of nonlinear equivalent circuits and frequency-dependent state-space models from field parameters. These models can be utilized in system and circuit simulation, ensuring the highest fidelity on SIL (software-in-the-loop) and HIL (hardware-in-the-loop) systems.
With Ansys simulation technology, you can confidently predict the real-world performance of your products, driving business success through innovation.
Ansys Maxwell is an industry-leading electromagnetic field simulation software for the design and analysis of electric motors, actuators, sensors, transformers and other electromagnetic and electromechanical devices.
Ansys Maxwell offers a significant advantage through its automatic adaptive meshing techniques. With Maxwell, you only need to specify the geometry, material properties, and desired output to achieve precise results. Utilizing a robust volumetric meshing technique and multithreading capability, Maxwell's meshing process reduces memory usage and speeds up the solution time. This technology simplifies the process of building and refining finite element meshes, making advanced numerical analysis accessible for all levels of your organization.
Seamlessly integrate Ansys Maxwell's electromagnetic field solvers into Ansys Workbench to analyze complex coupled-physics behaviors, including deformed mesh feedback structures, stress and strain feedback on magnetic properties, EM fluids, and acoustics.
Conduct advanced simulation calculations such as core loss calculations, vector hysteresis, four-quadrant simulation for permanent magnets, magnetostriction and magnetoelastic analysis, Litz Wire Loss, and manufacturing effects on loss computation.
Benefit from Ansys Maxwell's specialized interfaces tailored for electric machines and power converters, providing intuitive design criteria and simulation tools for each application.
Automate classical motor performance calculations and generate detailed finite element analysis setups with RMxprt, which automatically generates geometry, motion, mechanical setup, material properties, core loss, winding, and source setup.
A multi-domain power electronics simulator for electrical, magnetic, mechanical, fluid, and thermal systems that seamlessly integrates three fundamental component libraries: circuits, block diagrams, and state machines. Simplorer provides an integrated analysis thanks to its connection with EM (Maxwell, PExprt, RMxprt, Q3D, HFSS) and thermal tools (Ansys CFD, Ansys Icepak).
Simplorer offers comprehensive analysis capabilities, including high-fidelity power semiconductor model characterization for thermal and EMI/EMC simulations. In addition, Simplorer’s model libraries include VHDL-AMS capability and existing controls systems and customer developed models.
Power Electronics Expert (PExprt) is a magnetic design and optimization tool for ferrite transformers and inductors including, multi-winding transformers, coupled inductors, and flyback components. PExprt's template-based interface for transformers and inductors can automatically create a design from voltage waveform or converter inputs. The auto-design process considers all combinations of core shapes, sizes, materials, gaps, wire types and gauges, and winding strategies to optimize the magnetic design.
It contains manufacturer libraries for common components. It also combines FEA-based solutions to include skin and proximity effects, and gap effects due to magnetic fringing. Additionally, it calculates winding losses, core Losses, R, L, C parameters and temperature rise, and couples to Simplorer using a frequency dependent netlist for the simulated component.
Extend electromagnetic interaction to rigid body dynamics by transferring transient electromagnetic forces from Maxwell to Ansys Motion, enhancing overall noise-vibration solutions.
A new Ansys Maxwell transient solver provides multiterminal conductor support on a single conduction path.
