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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.
Material database
Altair database

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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.

Altair database

Introduction

The Altair database includes materials of different types originating from several manufacturers. It is not modifiable by the user. But it is possible to copy materials from this database to user database.

The icon to display or hide the Altair database is:

Naming norms

There are several nomenclature norms for materials (for example: AISI, ASTM, JIS, IEC).

In the materials manager, the name of a material supplied by Altair contains:

Manufacturer name
Material name chosen by the manufacturer
The associated frequency (if available)

For example, the magnetic material M220-50A, manufactured by Imphy, characterized at the frequency 50 Hz will be named Imphy_M220-50A_50Hz.

The names in other norms are referenced as well as possible in the “description” area of the « General » panel.

Manufacturers

The Altair database is comprised of materials coming from various materials manufacturers. For example:

Imphy – Aperam
Magnequench
Thyssenkyupp
China steel
Cogent
Protolam