Chapter 6: An Advanced Topology 4

6.1 Aim:
The goal of this chapter is to get familiar with advanced functionality of FEADMOS. In this chapter the
following topics will be covered:
1. How to select an Inner Magnet geometry and a Stator with rounded corners.
2. How to define parameters of the geometry.
3. How to define materials and winding.
4. How to define magnetisation.
5. Setup of calculation.
6. How Perform Cogging torque and Induced voltage calculation with nonlinear setup.
7. How to get the results of calculation.
8. How to perform Torque calculation.

6.2 Select Inner Magnet Geometry:
To perform the nonlinear calculations, the following steps are carried out:
1. Start-> Programs press FEADMOS, Fig.1.
2. Once FEADMOS starts the main window opens, as shown in Fig.2.
3. In the main window click on the Rotor button, Fig.3.
4. Click on the Inner Magnet button in Design Selector, Fig.4.
5. Upon clicking the Inner Magnet a menu with different magnets appear, Fig.5.
6. From the menu Inner Magnet Type 4 is selected.
7. Upon selecting the Inner Magnet Type 4 the default geometry of this rotor appears, Fig.6.


Figure 1: Starting of FEADMOS

Figure 2: The main window of FEADMOS

Rotor button in
main window
Rotor button in
main window

Figure 3: The display of number of poles and slots

Inner magnet
button
Inner magnet
button

Figure 4: The Inner magnet button
Inner Magnet Types Inner Magnet Types

Figure 5: The Inner magnet types selection menu


Figure 6: The default Inner magnet type 4 geometry and the default parameters

6.3 Define Parameters of Inner Magnet Geometry Type 3:
1. The new parameters of the geometry and its shape are given in Fig.7.
2. After defining the parameters of rotor geometry press OK. After pressing OK the geometry in the main
window appears as shown in Fig.8.
3. Now select the default stator and define the parameters of the stator as shown in Fig.9.
4. After defining the parameters of the stator press OK. After pressing OK, the geometry of the motor
appears as shown in Fig.10.
5. Click on Stator button and select Stator With Shoe 1 arc type 2 an enter the values as shown in Fig.9.
6. After defining the values of the stator geometry press OK button an the geometry of the motor appears
as shown in Fig.10.


Figure 7: The new Inner magnet type 1 geometry and the its parameters


Figure 8: The geometry of the motor after defining rotor parameters an pressing OK


Figure 9: The Stator geometry and the its parameters





Figure 10: The geometry of the motor after defining the stator parameters and pressing OK


6.4 Define Parameters Materials and Winding:
1. Press the Materials button, Fig.11.
2. Upon pressing Materials button the Materials Definition window appears, Fig.12.
3. In the Material Definition window click on Relative Permeability button in Stator Iron, and click on
File, Fig.13.
4. After clicking the File button, go to the folder where materials are defined. The material files have an
extension .bh.
5. In the present example the material M250-35A.bh is selected for both the stator iron and for the rotor
iron.
6. After defining the materials press OK. The other parameters in this window remain unchanged.
7. The default wining scheme is used. To see the winding scheme press on Scheme button, Fig.14.

Materials button
in main window
Materials button
in main window

Figure 11: The Materials button



Figure 12: The Material Definition window

File
button
File
button

Figure 13: The File button to select the materials


Figure 14: The wining scheme





6.5 Define Magnetisation:
The steps involved in definition of magnetisation are as follows:
1. Click on the Magnets button, Fig.15
2. Upon clicking the Magnets button, the window for definition of magnet properties opens, Fig.16. In
this window the default magnetisation properties are given.
3. The magnetisation properties that are defined are shown in Fig.17.
4. After having defined the material properties press OK button.
Magnets button
in main window
Magnets button
in main window

Figure 15: The Magnets button


Figure 16: The default Magnetisation values



Figure 17: The defined Magnetisation values


6.6 Calculation setup:
To define setup the calculation the following steps are involved:
1. Click on the Edit Modes button, Fig.18.
2. Upon clicking the Edit Modes button, a new window appears with default values, Fig.19.
3. In the present calculation the default winding scheme is used.
4. Press OK button.

The Edit Modes
button
The Edit Modes
button

Figure 18: The Edit Modes button




Figure 19: The calculation setup parameters

6.7 Calculation of Cogging Torque and Induced voltage:
1. After having defined the model, materials, winding and calculation setup press Start button, Fig.20.
2. After pressing the Start button, FEADMOS performs pre-processing. In this phase the model is
meshed, boundary conditions are defined and material properties are assigned to the model.
3. To start the calculation, press the Start button again.

The Start button The Start button

Figure 20: The Start button

6.8 Results of Calculation:
To view the field plots the following steps are carried out:
1. To view the vector potentials, press Field button first, Fig. 21.
2. After pressing the Field plot button, the main changes as shown in Fig.22.
3. Now press the Results button. After having pressed the Results button, the main window changes as
shown in Fig.23. In Fig. 23 the Vector Potentials are shown.
4. To view the B-field plots press |B| button, Fig.24. The figure that appears in the main window displays
the B-field plots.


The Field Plot
Button
The Field Plot
Button

Figure 21: The Field Plots button


Figure 22: Main window after pressing the Field Plots button


Figure 23: Vector potential plots




Figure 24: B-field plots

To view the results of cogging torque and induced voltage, the following steps are carried out:
1. Click on Charts button. Upon clicking the Charts button the main window changes as shown in
Fig.25.
2. To view the cogging torque results, press the Cogging Torque button, Fig.26.
3. Similarly to view the flux linked by each phase, press Phase Flux Without Currents button, Fig. 27.
4. Finally to view the induced voltage, press Phase Induced Voltage, Fig. 28.

Charts button Charts button

Figure 25: The Charts button









Figure 26: The Cogging Torque button and results


Figure 27: The Phase Flux Without currents results


Figure 28: The Induced voltage results





6.9 Torque calculation:
1. After the calculation as described in previous section is complete, press the Edit Groups button again,
a new window appears, Fig.29.
2. In this new press New button,Fig.29.
3. After pressing the New button, press Group (With Current) button, Fig.30.
4. After pressing the Group (With Current) a new window appears with default values, Fig.31.
5. Enter the new values in this window as shown in Fig.32.
6. After entering the new values press the OK button, Fig.32.
7. After that press the Start button.
8. Once the calculation is finished press the Charts button to view the results.
9. To view the Torque results, press Torque button in Charts menu, Fig.33.
10. To adjust the axis of the graphs, right click in the Graph displaying the Torque values, Fig.34.
11. Click on the Axis button and new options popup, Fig.35.
12. In the axis window click Y-axis button, Fig.35.
13. Upon pressing the Y-axis button, enter the values as shown in Fig.36 and uncheck the Minimum,
Maximum and Major Unit buttons. Finally press the Apply button and in the end OK button.
14. Upon pressing the OK button, the results of Torque are displayed as shown in Fig. 37.
15. Using the above steps the results of Phase Flux with Current, Phase Currents, Motor Constants and
DC currents can be seen, Fig.38 to Fig.41.
New
button
New
button

Figure 29: The window after pressing Edit Groups button

Group (With Current)
button
Group (With Current)
button

Figure 30: The Group (With Current) button


Figure 31: The new window after pressing Group (With Current) button


Figure 32: The new values for Torque calculation




Torque button Torque button

Figure 33: The Torque button


Figure 34: The window after pressing the right button of mouse

Y-Axis button Y-Axis button

Figure 35: The Y-axis button







Figure 36: The new settings of the Y-axis


Figure 37: The Torque values after setting the Y-axis


Figure 38: The Flux linked by windings with currents





Figure 39: The Applied currents per phase


Figure 40: The motor constants of the motor


Figure 41: The current flowing from the battery to the inverter