Thermal

In the thermal settings you have two main possible choices:
  • Either you can define the temperatures of active components (Magnet and winding) to define the physical properties of the materials needed to directly run the tests without any thermal computation.
  • Or you can choose between two other ways to run the test: iterative process until convergence or a single iteration process to perform electromagnetic computation coupled to thermal analysis.
    Note:
    1. The external fluid temperature corresponds to the temperature of the fluid surrounding the machine. It is also considered as the temperature at the “infinite” for the computation of radiation from the frame to the infinite.
    2. The cooling circuit fluid temperature is relevant only when a cooling circuit has been added by the user in the design environment. In this case, this input describes its fluid inlet temperature.
    Note: This test allows electromagnetic computations with coupled thermal analysis when both the following conditions are met:
    • The type of machine is Synchronous Machine with Permanent Magnets with Inner rotor
    • Iterative thermal solving can be selected.

Settings

For more details, please refer to Thermal for SMPM