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Altair® Flux® 2024.1 Documentation
Altair® Flux® 2024.1 Documentation

2024.1
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  2. Flux

    Flux is a finite element software for low-frequency electromagnetic and thermal simulations. Both, 2D and 3D solutions are available...

  3. Construction of a Flux project

    The construction of a Flux project consists of several stages: Geometry → Mesh → Physics → Resolution → Postprocessing; with the possibility to import a CAD file, a mesh, materials...

  4. Mesh: software aspects
  5. Mesh shadow (3D)
  • 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...

    • General operation

      Here is a presentation of the Flux environment; the project management, the data management, the command language, the formulas and mathematical functions.

    • Construction of a Flux project

      The construction of a Flux project consists of several stages: Geometry → Mesh → Physics → Resolution → Postprocessing; with the possibility to import a CAD file, a mesh, materials...

      • Geometry: principles
      • Geometry: software aspects
      • Geometry: Sketcher (2D)
      • Geometry: Modeler (3D)
      • Mesh: principles
      • Mesh: software aspects
        • Aided mesh
        • Mesh point
        • Mesh line
        • Mesh generator
        • Mesh relaxation for Lines / Faces / Volumes
        • Mesh shadow (3D)
          • Mesh shadow (3D): about
          • Mesh shadow (3D): definition (structure)
          • Assign mesh shadow to faces
        • Assignment of mesh generators
        • Structuring the mesh
        • Order of elements
        • Mesh elements generation
        • Mesh elements and mesh defects
        • Verification of the mesh
        • Visualization of the mesh elements
        • Creation of visualization volume elements by selection plane

        • Deletion of the mesh
        • Cleaning of mesh information
        • Skin depth computation
        • Sequence of commands
      • Geometry / mesh import: principles
      • Geometry / mesh importation: software aspects
      • Materials: principles
      • Materials: software aspects
      • Coils and windings in Flux
      • Magnetic cores in Flux
      • Structural optimization in Flux
      • Solving process: principles
      • Solving process: software aspects
      • Results post-processing: principles
      • Results post-processing: software aspects
      • Parametric analysis: principles
    • Physical applications

      Flux allows to model different physical phenomena, and includes various applications (magnetic, electrical, thermal and thermal coupled).

    • Circuit and Kinematic Couplings

      Flux is coupled to a circuit context allowing to model the sources of the devices.Flux also allow to model the movement via a kinematic coupling.

    • Co-simulation between Flux and another software

      Flux is able to couple with several softwares allowing to model mutliphysics phenomena.

    • Dedicated couplings

      Several dedicated couplings are implemented in Flux to, carry out vibro-acoustic studies, magneto-thermal studies and more.

    • 3D Overlay

      Flux has predefined models for rotating machines via Overlays allowing to describe a geometry, a mesh and a physics adapted to the wished machine.

    • Flux API

    • How to Configure the Memory in Flux?

  • 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.

Mesh shadow (3D)

Notions

General knowledge:

Mesh shadow (3D): about

Mesh shadow (3D): definiton (structure)

Management

Commands of creation, modification and deletion:

New

Edit

Edit array

Delete / Force delete

Assignment

The command of assignment:

Assign mesh shadow to faces

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  • Management
  • Assignment

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