Workshop

Electrical Machines and Computational Magnetics at Intermag

Are Real World Challenges being addressed by Simulation Systems?

This Workshop is being held jointly by the IEEE Magnetics Society and the International Compumag Society and in conjunction with the Intermag conference. The intention is to bring together two communities who are connected through the design process for electrical machines but rarely meet. This is described as the “real world meets the virtual”. Over the past several decades, simulation systems have become more and more capable and are often discussed in terms of “Digital Twins”. However, are they actually addressing the issues that designers face in creating electrical machines for a range of applications ranging from industrial to transportation, from domestic to health care and from communications to control?

The workshop brings together a team of internationally recognized electrical machines designers, software developers and researchers to try to identify the roadmaps for electrical machine developments and software tool capabilities.

Morning Session – start at 0900

Welcome, Introduction, Goals for the day (15 minutes)

Session 1: (0915 – 1115)

Physical Electric Machine Design (25 minutes per presentation)

  1. Maximizing Power/Weight performance of electrical machines. What are the design challenges and simulation tool weaknesses? Abderrahmane Rebhaoui (Nidec)
  2. What is the impact of additive manufacturing on electrical machine design and construction? Can these machines be designed effectively? Ants Kallaste (Tallinn University of Technology)
  3. How important is the design of the drive in the performance of an electrical machine? George Papafotiou (Eindhoven University of Technology)
  4. What are the main constraints on the design of high speed electrical machines? Johan Paulides (AE-Group)
  5. The vital importance of thermal, mechanical and vibration effects and their interactions with magnetics, in the design of electrical machines. Tim Miller (Retrospeed)

Coffee break – (1115-1130)

Session 2: (1130 – 1250)

European Projects on Electrical Machine Development (20 minutes per project)

  1. The CREATOR project  Annette Muetze, (TU Graz)
  2. The MAXIMA project Stephane Clenet (Arts et Metiers, Lille)
  3. The HiECS project Pia Lindh (LUT, Lappeenranta)
  4. The GalFer Competition Luigi Solimene (Polytechnic University of Turin)

Lunch – (1250-1345)

Session 3: (1345 – 1550)

Simulation Tools (25 minutes per presentation)

  1. Can numerical field simulation help improve the design of motor controllers? Alessandro Formisano (Università della Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli )
  2.  What is the state-of-the-art in magnetic material representation and what are the existing limitations? Laurent Daniel (CentraleSupelec, Gif-sur-Yvette)
  3. Why should Pareto optimality be important to an electrical machine designer – what can it allow a designer to achieve? Paolo Di Barba (University of Pavia)
  4. What is the effect of Machine Learning likely to be on simulation systems for electrical machines? Min-Fu Hsieh (National Cheng Kung University)
  5. What are the issues in using open-source software in the electrical machine design process? Johan Gyselinck (Université Libre de Bruxelles)

Coffee Break (1550-1605)

Session 4: (1605-1700)

Open discussion on the requirements for Simulation Tools to be able to handle the next generation of electrical machines.

Day ends at 1700