Ansys Motor-CAD

Electric machine design

Ansys Motor-CAD is a dedicated electric machine design tool for fast multiphysics simulation across the full torque-speed operating range.

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Make electric motor design decisions quickly and with reliability

Motor-CAD optimizes motor designs for performance, efficiency, and size by enabling engineers to evaluate various topologies and concepts across the operating range. Its integrated modules (EMag, Therm, Lab, Mech) facilitate quick and iterative multiphysics calculations, accelerating the journey from concept to final design.

  • Intuitive, template-based set up
  • Full operating range design
  • Built-in em, thermal and mechanical solvers
  • Thermal sizing of machines
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Explore more motor topologies

Motor-CAD users can dedicate more time to exploring various motor topologies and thoroughly evaluating the influence of advanced loss effects during the early phases of an electromechanical design, thanks to swift calculations and efficient data input procedures.

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Template-based magnetic topologies

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2D FEA coupled with analytical solution

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DXF and scriptable geometries

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CFD, FEA and empirical correlations

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Template-based cooling topologies

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Temperature dependent duty-cycle

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Multi-slice skew

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Efficiency calculations

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Loss maps calculations

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3D coupled thermal-fluid network

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Linear structural 2D FEA

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Steady-state and transient thermal

Integrated multiphysics analysis for electric motor design

Motor-CAD enables high-fidelity 2D/3D analysis of motors, including end-effects, demagnetization, core loss, and hysteresis. It also helps engineers calculate thermal envelopes and design motor cooling systems.

Integrates with Ansys Maxwell and other physics solvers

Ansys Motor-CAD connects to Ansys Maxwell for advanced 2D and 3D electromagnetics analysis.

Template-based electromagnetic and thermal design

Comprehensive and powerful geometry templates enable the complete electric machine design space to be explored.

Electromagnetic-thermal-control coupling simulation

Multi-physics analysis and in-built control algorithms for virtual testing considering temperature over transient drive cycles or at steady state.

Design for field weakening

Easily and quickly analyze the performance of their designs over the operating envelope, including field weakening behavior.

Temperature dependent continuous-torque and peak-torque simulation

Rapidly evaluate designs against the complete multi-physics performance requirements such as peak and continuous torque/speed characteristics.

Manufacturing effects and housing interfaces

Configure the manufacturing effects and sensitivity analysis to understand the impact of manufacturing variation on performance.

Ratio-based optimization

Explore the design space and evaluate each candidate design against the complete performance specification.

Magnetic force analysis

Automatically extract and visualize magnetic forces as a function of time and space, over the full operating range. Enabling NVH analysis of a design.

Rotor stress analysis

Optimize rotor designs and trade-off between electromagnetic performance and mechanical constraints with automatic FEA based analysis.

Automated workflow

Automated workflows with Ansys Discovery, Mechanical, Maxwell, and Fluent model export and setup for improved computational multiphysics support.

Rotor geometries

The addition of various rotor geometries for use in parameter-driven optimization using Ansys optiSLang.

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