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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.
Performing a simulation
Results post-processing
Arrows
Arrows: about

Welcome
User guide
The user guide gives information about principles and how to use Altair® Flux® 2024.1.
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.
Altair Flux Videos
Several youtube videos about how to use Altair Flux and several tip and tricks
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...
Flux Skew
Flux Skew is a module dedicated to the analysis of rotating electric machines with skewing, allowing a straightforward geometric and physical description in 2D and the consideration of continuous or step skewing effects.
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
The Material Identification tool is based on the Altair Compose environment and allows determining from measurements the parameters and coefficients required to create a material in Flux.
Altair Material Datacenter (AMDC)
AMDC is a comprehensive material database maintained by Altair and partner suppliers of engineering materials. Ready-to-use, Flux-compatible models may be obtained directly from this database for a growing number of materials.
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 and Mipse solvers, 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.
Flux Starting Guide
Several short videos to start with Flux.

Arrows: about

Plotting of arrows

Spatial vectorial quantities can be displayed by means of colored arrows on the different supports.

Support

The support for the plotting of arrows are:

unidirectional conductors
bidirectional conductors
2D grids

Spatial quantities

The spatial quantities that can be displayed by means of arrows are:

the current density and its three components (X, Y or Z)
the magnetic flux density and its three components (X, Y or Z)
the Laplace force density (the average component as well as the 2ω pulsating component) and its three components (X, Y or Z)

Meaning of the arrows

The spatial quantities considered are displayed by means of arrows according to the following rules:

the color of the arrows is proportional to the modulus of the quantity
the orientation of the arrows points the direction of this quantity*

Note: * Obviously, if the quantity selected is a component of a quantity, the orientation of the arrows will be the direction of that component.

Computation points

The points where the arrows are computed depends on the spatial quantity selected but are in general highly linked to:

for unidirectional conductors, to the mesh and the additional points due to the discretization in the length for the post-processing*
for bidirectional conductors, to the mesh
for 2D grids, to their own discretization as described in § 2D grids: about

Note: * To discretize in the length a unidirectional conductor, the user must first create it and then edit its features from the Data tree. In the Mesh tab of the window which appears, the user can define the number of discretization points along the length, as shown in the figure below.