Material: about
Materials
Materials can be:
- created directly in the Flux project
- imported from a materials database*
* Information concerning the materials database (database location and managing of materials in database) is presented in chapter Material Manager.
Properties of materials and physical application
Materials possess various physical properties.
They can be characterized by:
- their magnetic property B(H) and/or B(H,T)
- their electric property J(E) and/or J(E,T)
- their magneto-mechanical property B(Stress)
- their dielectric property D(E)
- their thermal conductivity k(T)
- their specific heat ρCP(T)
Physical properties, useful for modeling, depend on the current (active) physical application. The table below summarizes the “dependencies” between physical properties of materials and physical application.
| Physical application | Physical property | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| B(H) | J(E) | B(Stress) | D(E) | k(T) | ρCP(T) | |
| Magneto Static | yes | yes (2D) | ||||
| Transient Magnetic | yes | yes | yes (2D) | |||
| Steady State AC Magnetic | yes | yes | ||||
| Electro Static | yes | |||||
| Electric Conduction | yes | |||||
| Steady State AC Electric | yes | yes | ||||
| Steady Thermal | yes | |||||
| Transient Thermal | yes | yes | ||||
| Steady State AC Magnetic coupled with Transient Thermal | yes | yes | yes | yes | ||
| Electric Conduction coupled with Transient Thermal (2D) | yes | yes | yes | |||
| Steady State AC Electric coupled with Transient Thermal (2D) - available in Advanced mode only | yes | yes | yes | yes | ||
Models
Models provided for physical properties are presented in chapter Materials: principles.
Correspondence of the models
The models, provided with the Material manager, and the models, provided in Flux, are all compatible.
The correspondence between the names of Material manager models and the names of Flux models is presented in List of models for each properties.