It was written to work in 3D, not sure about 2D.
Do you have a 3D test?
Core Loss Calculation
Re: Core Loss Calculation
No, sorry.
Re: Core Loss Calculation
I got this working properly now. Turns out this was a rather silly mistake.
I accidentally changed the Non Linear System Convergence Tolereance of the Magnetodynamics solver from 1e-06 to 1e-02 in the sif file that I used for the investigations. This caused some weird high frequency oscillations in the magnetic flux. These high frequency oscillations caused the core loss to go through the roof when increasing the Fourier Series Components.
The results are now within 5 % of the ANSYS Maxwell model I am comparing against, which seems reasonable to me.
Thanks everybody for your help.
I accidentally changed the Non Linear System Convergence Tolereance of the Magnetodynamics solver from 1e-06 to 1e-02 in the sif file that I used for the investigations. This caused some weird high frequency oscillations in the magnetic flux. These high frequency oscillations caused the core loss to go through the roof when increasing the Fourier Series Components.
The results are now within 5 % of the ANSYS Maxwell model I am comparing against, which seems reasonable to me.
Thanks everybody for your help.
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Re: Core Loss Calculation
Hi
That's great! Devil often lies in the detail.
It would be really nice if you could share some actual comparison, for example in this repo:
https://github.com/ElmerCSC/elmer-elmag
How many components did you end up using? They are sort of married with the time resolution. The more components you want the finer timestepping is needed.
-Peter
That's great! Devil often lies in the detail.
It would be really nice if you could share some actual comparison, for example in this repo:
https://github.com/ElmerCSC/elmer-elmag
How many components did you end up using? They are sort of married with the time resolution. The more components you want the finer timestepping is needed.
-Peter
Re: Core Loss Calculation
Hi Peter,
I ended up using 24 components since the machine I am modelling has 24 slots. I had a look at how increasing the number of components impacts the core loss (view attachment), and this seems a reasonable value.
I used 60 time steps per electrical period. Is there a rule of thumb for how many time steps/period are required to pick up higher harmonics? I could just do a sensitivity study on that as well I suppose.
I will add the example to the repo you suggested.
Thanks
Kevin
I ended up using 24 components since the machine I am modelling has 24 slots. I had a look at how increasing the number of components impacts the core loss (view attachment), and this seems a reasonable value.
I used 60 time steps per electrical period. Is there a rule of thumb for how many time steps/period are required to pick up higher harmonics? I could just do a sensitivity study on that as well I suppose.
I will add the example to the repo you suggested.
Thanks
Kevin
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