Generalized projective method
Introduction
This chapter discusses the use of the Generalized projective method to create force collections in the Import / Export data context : this kind of collection allows to compute forces on a generic mesh (i.e., a set of points) with the aim to be exported towards OptiStruct to setup a NVH analysis of electrical devices, such as rotating machines. This method and then the collection created may be seen as an extension of the simplified projective method dedicated to rotating machines which overcome its limitations.
The following topics are covered in this page:
- Description of the approach
- Creation of this force collection
- Example
Description of the approach
This approach is based on two data supports defined by the user: one for the data collect and secondly a set of supports to compute and integrate the magnetic pressure to be exported. The support to collect the data must be imported with the help of the data supports as it is shown in (b) part of Figure 1. The set of supports to compute and integrate the magnetic pressure can be defined by an extruded compound path, a 2D grid as shown in (a) part of Figure 1 or an extruded geometric line in an air region. All the components of the magnetic pressure are computed with the Maxwell tensor approach and can be integrated with all available methods on the set of supports; finally, they are projected on the support for the data collect.
Creation of this collection
- In the data tree, select the menu Forces data collection
- In the dedicated GUI for Forces data collection, select Generalized projective method
- In the Definition tab:
- Choose an imported data support to collect the data
- Choose a list of data supports to compute and integrate the magnetic pressure
- In the Advanced tab, the user can decompose the computed forces in
radial and tangential components. To this aim, he is invited to:
- Select the rotation axis (X, Y or Z expressed in XYZ1 coordinate system)
- Choose a pivot point by its coordinates and a coordinate system
- Choose the collection interval:
- Collect for all the steps of the scenario
- Collect only for the current step
- Collect for a specified interval
- Click OK
- Right click on the forces data collection just created in the data tree and run the command Collect data
Example
In this example, the aim is to compute the global force on each tooth of the 3D axial flux machine described in Figure 1 after solving a scenario in Flux.
To this aim, a support to collect the data is imported from OptiStruct which is the same as part (b) of Figure 1; . On the computation support which is also the same as part (a) of Figure 1; on this support, forces are computed with the Generalized projective method described before.
