Altair® Flux®  2023.1 Documentation
Altair® Flux® 2023.1 Documentation

2023.1

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  2. Flux

    Flux is a finite element software for low-frequency electromagnetic and thermal simulations. Both, 2D and 3D solutions are available...

  3. Co-simulation between Flux and another software

    Flux is able to couple with several softwares allowing to model mutliphysics phenomena.

  4. Multiphysics co-simulation: software aspects
  • User guide
  • What's new?
  • "How to" Documents
  • Flux Supervisor
  • Flux
  • Flux Skew
  • Flux PEEC
  • Material Identification
  • Altair Material Datacenter (AMDC)
  • Material Manager
  • Flux e-Machine Toolbox
  • Flux Examples
  • Flux in SimLab Examples
  • Mementos
  • Macros
  • PyFlux Documentation (Beta version)
  • Flux installation guide
  • Flux Starting Guide
Altair® Flux®  2023.1 Documentation
Altair® Flux® 2023.1 Documentation
  • User guide

    The user guide gives information about principles and how to use Altair® Flux® 2023.1.

  • What's new?

    See the release notes of the last and previous versions, with the necessary information on new features.

  • "How to" Documents

    See a list of documents to understand how to use certain features.

  • Flux Supervisor

    The Flux supervisor allows to run projects, examples, pythons scripts; to configure user preferences; to access tools...

  • Flux

    Flux is a finite element software for low-frequency electromagnetic and thermal simulations. Both, 2D and 3D solutions are available...

    • General operation

      Here is a presentation of the Flux environment; the project management, the data management, the command language, the formulas and mathematical functions.

    • Construction of a Flux project

      The construction of a Flux project consists of several stages: Geometry → Mesh → Physics → Resolution → Postprocessing; with the possibility to import a CAD file, a mesh, materials...

    • Physical applications

      Flux allows to model different physical phenomena, and includes various applications (magnetic, electrical, thermal and thermal coupled).

    • Circuit and Kinematic Couplings

      Flux is coupled to a circuit context allowing to model the sources of the devices.Flux also allow to model the movement via a kinematic coupling.

    • Co-simulation between Flux and another software

      Flux is able to couple with several softwares allowing to model mutliphysics phenomena.

      • Multiphysics co-simulation: principles
      • Multiphysics co-simulation: software aspects
        • Multiphysics session
        • Creation of spatial quantities for data exchange
        • Update, importation and exportation of data
        • Multiphysics solving
        • Automating of the data exchanges process
        • Sequence of commands: unidirectional exchange (without multiphysics session)
        • Sequence of commands: exchange between two static applications
        • Sequence of commands: exchange between a static application and a transient application
      • Flux - HyperStudy co-simulation

      • Flux-Activate co-simulation
      • Flux-Simulink co-simulation
      • Export of N dimensions data table

    • Dedicated couplings

      Several dedicated couplings are implemented in Flux to, carry out vibro-acoustic studies, magneto-thermal studies and more.

    • 3D Overlay

      Flux has predefined models for rotating machines via Overlays allowing to describe a geometry, a mesh and a physics adapted to the wished machine.

    • Flux API

    • How to Configure the Memory in Flux?

  • Flux Skew

    Flux Skew is a module dedicated to the analysis of rotating electric machines with skewing, allowing a straightforward geometric and physical description in 2D and the consideration of continuous or step skewing effects.

  • Flux PEEC

    Flux PEEC is a 3D modeling module dedicated to electrical interconnections of power electronics devices. It also provides RLC extraction and generation of SPICE-like equivalent circuits.

  • Material Identification

    The Material Identification tool is based on the Altair Compose environment and allows determining from measurements the parameters and coefficients required to create a material in Flux.

  • Altair Material Datacenter (AMDC)

    AMDC is a comprehensive material database maintained by Altair and partner suppliers of engineering materials. Ready-to-use, Flux-compatible models may be obtained directly from this database for a growing number of materials.

  • Material Manager

    Flux has a material manager with its own material base.The user can create his own material base and import them into the Flux models to be studied.

  • Flux e-Machine Toolbox

    FeMt is a application in Flux dedicated for Electric Machine which permits to compute and postprocess results like efficiency maps.

  • Flux Examples

    See the lists of examples 2D, 3D, SKEW and PEEC with all available documents and all project and python files.

  • Flux in SimLab Examples

    See the lists of 2D and 3D SimLab examples using the Flux solver, with all available documents, *.slb databases and all script files.

  • Mementos

    See a list of Memento documents to understand certain Flux features.

  • Macros

    Flux proposes several macros enabling doing actions that are not yet implemented in Flux.

  • PyFlux Documentation (Beta version)

    This documentation deals with the Jython script used in Flux and allows to understand the various structures of entities and functions, and use it in user scripts for example.

  • Flux installation guide

    This document provides instructions for Flux installation on supported platforms.

  • Flux Starting Guide

    Several short videos to start with Flux.

Altair® Flux®  2023.1 Documentation
Altair® Flux® 2023.1 Documentation

2023.1

  1. Home
  2. ...
    • Flux

      Flux is a finite element software for low-frequency electromagnetic and thermal simulations. Both, 2D and 3D solutions are available...

    • Co-simulation between Flux and another software

      Flux is able to couple with several softwares allowing to model mutliphysics phenomena.

  3. Multiphysics co-simulation: software aspects
  • User guide
  • What's new?
  • "How to" Documents
  • Flux Supervisor
  • Flux
  • Flux Skew
  • Flux PEEC
  • Material Identification
  • Altair Material Datacenter (AMDC)
  • Material Manager
  • Flux e-Machine Toolbox
  • Flux Examples
  • Flux in SimLab Examples
  • Mementos
  • Macros
  • PyFlux Documentation (Beta version)
  • Flux installation guide
  • Flux Starting Guide

ON THIS PAGE

  • Session
  • Data
  • Actions
  • Flowcharts
  • Reading advice
  • Contents

Multiphysics co-simulation: software aspects

Session

Multiphysics session:

Multiphysics session

Data

Available data:

I/O parameter (Input/Output)

Spatial quantity

Multipoint support

Actions

Procedures for a multiphysics co-simulation management:

Creation of spatial quantities for data exchange

Update, importation and exportation of data

Multiphysics solving

Automatisation of the data exchanges process

Flowcharts

Sequences (simplified) of commands:

Sequence of commands: unidirectional exchange (without multiphysics session)

Sequence of commands: exchange between two static applications

Sequence of commands: exchange between a static application and a transient application

Reading advice

For theoretical aspects (principles) refer to chapter Co-simulation Multiphysique : principe.

Contents

ON THIS PAGE

  • Session
  • Data
  • Actions
  • Flowcharts
  • Reading advice
  • Contents

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