Flux e-Machine Toolbox: Workflows
Generate a coupling component for Flux e-Machine Toolbox
Here are the steps to run a computation via Flux e-Machine Toolbox:
- Open the project in Flux starting from the Flux Supervisor
→ The description of the electrical machine is considered done in this project
- Check the prerequisites in the Flux project for Flux e-Machine Toolbox coupling
- Open the dialog box of the generation of Flux e-Machine Toolbox coupling
component
Click on the Solving menu and click on Generate component for Flux e-Machine Toolbox coupling
- Choose the name of the component
- Choose to overwrite Yes or No the component if already existing (No by default)
- Choose the save directory (the working directory by default)
- Choose to run Yes or No the Flux e-Machine Toolbox application and open the generated component (Yes by default)
- Choose the electrical machine to study (family, type and sub-type of the motor)
- Choose the prerequisites for the computation of stator winding Joule
losses
- The number of phases
- The coil conductor for each phase
- Choose the prerequisites for the computation of rotor Eddy current losses
- Choose the support type (Sensor or Region or Solid conductor)
- Choose the support
- Choose the geometric parameter defining the number of poles of the machine
- Enter the repetition number of the stator periodicity (if it is different from the rotor one)
- Validate by clicking on OK
→ The coupling component XXX.FEMT has been created
→ Flux e-Machine Toolbox is launched and the coupling component is opened
Run a test in Flux e-Machine Toolbox
Here are the steps to run a test in Flux e-Machine Toolbox:
- Open Flux e-Machine Toolbox by clicking in the supervisor on:
- Open the coupling component by clicking on the icon: and
choose the coupling component XXX.FEMT and validate
→ The component is opened in Flux e-Machine Toolbox
- Define different user parameters
- Run the test
Click on
→ A progress bar indicates that the test is in progress
→ The Flux solving is run in batch mode
→ Once the Flux solving is done, a postprocessing script is run
→ Once the postprocessing script is completed, perfomance maps are loaded in the central area of Flux e-Machine Toolbox
- Post-process the maps
→ It is possible to export the results of a test for a report (HTML and PDF format) or to postprocess data (TXT format)
Variant: Run a test from an electrical machine model obtained by FluxMotor
It is possible to do a Flux e-Machine Toolbox coupling from a motor described in FluxMotor and thus benefit from the pre-design done with FluxMotor and the modeling of the losses in Flux to obtain the performance maps in Flux e-Machine Toolbox:
- In FluxMotor, generate a python script corresponding to the studied motor
- In Flux:
- Run this python script to create the Flux project
- Save the project
- Generate the Flux e-Machine Toolbox coupling component
- In Flux e-Machine Toolbox, run the test