CONVERGE for Electric Motors

This course offers a hands-on introduction to modeling flows in electric motors with CONVERGE. Participants will work through the setup of an air-cooled motor simulation, including geometry creation, geometry import, boundary flagging, case setup, numerical models and parameters, case execution on HPC, and analyzing the flow and temperature field results. We will also discuss oil-cooled and external-water-jacket cooled devices and rotational jet impingement cooling. We will demonstrate different methods for treating the rotational motion of the motor, such as the moving geometry approach, the simplified fixed geometry approach, and the multiple reference frame approach. Furthermore, we will explore options for coupling the heat source and/or thermal solution with external electromagnetic software packages.

*This session includes hands-on CONVERGE Studio practice.

PREREQUISITES

Introduction to CONVERGE (or equivalent introductory CONVERGE training course)