What's new in Altair® FluxMotor® 2025.1

Highlights of the new version

Overview

The main information about Altair® FluxMotor® 2025.1 are described below.

For more detailed information, please refer to the user help guides. The list of documents to read is presented below.

Here are the highlights of the new version:
  • Flow Simulator thermal and flow solver in the back end of FluxMotor (v2025.1)
    • Characterization / Steady state / Transient / Fitting (SMPM / RSM / IMSQ)
    • Working Point - I, Ψ, N (SMPM / RSM) + U, f, N (IMSQ) - Coupled eMag ↔ Thermal computations
    • Efficiency map (SMPM) - Coupled eMag ↔ Thermal computations
  • Induction machines with vector control command
    • Characterization / Model / Maps
    • Performance mapping – Sine wave – Efficiency map
    • Export of LUT
  • Synchronous Machines – Permanent Magnets
    • Maps & efficiency maps with limits of temperatures
  • Performance of the wound field synchronous machines
    • Characterization – Short-circuit - Short-circuit curve
  • Sketcher SimLab - FluxMotor
    • To make the part topology definition easier
    • Parameterized parts (Except structural data) for SMPM – Library of slot is available in SimLab
  • Material management improvements
    • Multi-segment lamination model
    • Management of the stacking factor at the design stage
  • New Supervisor / GUI / Workflow
  • New connector for HyperStudy dedicated to one test of the wound field synchronous machines
    • The computation of a Working Point (P/Sn, Pf, U, N) – Motor or Generator operating mode
  • Correction of issues

All the added new features are briefly described below, followed by an update on issues and bugs.

Brief illustration of the key new features
FluxMotor 2025.1 – The key features


FluxMotor 2025.1 – The key features


FluxMotor 2025.1 – The key features


FluxMotor 2025.1 – The key features


FluxMotor 2025.1 – The key features

Documents to read

Important: It is highly recommended to read the user guides, before using FluxMotor®. Each user help document can be downloaded from the online user help on the following link Documents to read