Help for generator designers
March 22, 2010 by Paul Dvorak
Filed under Wind Power Generators, Wind Power Software
The first release of V7 introduced multicore solving capabilities, which let users take advantage of dual, quad, and 8-core processors to get faster results from the software. Multicore features will be added in v7.1.
Developer of MagNet says its Version 7, available mid-spring 2010, will let users simulate the magnetization of a permanent magnet, expand on MagNet’s multicore support, and include other new features. V7.1, from Infolytica Corp., will allow simulating and determine the magnetic field strength inside the permanent magnet component by the magnetization pattern and source current in the magnetizing coils.
The result will be a permanent magnet for which each point inside will have a different recoil loop depending on the flux density reached during magnetization.
The permanent magnet can be then used as a component in an electromagnetic device, such as a generator or motor, for which further simulations can be performed as to study the performance based on the magnetized state that was stored from the previous simulation.
It will be available for PC’s running Microsoft Windows XP, Vista, and 7 in Spring 2010
Windpower Engineering Editor Paul Dvorak is an experienced mechanical engineer. Paul has seven years of hands on mechanical engineering experience and 23 years of technical writing. Paul is constantly in correspondence with wind turbine manufacturers and wind power researchers. Thanks to this correspondence, he is able to write about wind engineering topics before any other editor in the wind space.
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