Virtual product development for electrical motors

In this paper, a software for virtual product development of electrical motors is introduced. Nowadays, consideration of electromagnetic, thermal and acoustic design aspects of electrical machines can be achieved by either using specialized or universal software packages. The specialized packages are predominantly developed for only one physical domains whereas universal software packages need to be adapted for the individual application. In both cases, the design engineer spends plenty of time, adapting or coupling software instead of developing an electrical machine. The software presented in this paper is specialized for the development of electrical machines and combines simulation tools for all mentioned physical domains. Furthermore, numerical and analytical methods are coupled to reduce computation time of typical numerical simulations and to increase the accuracy of analytical approaches. For the implementation, open-source components are used to reduce costs and to use well documented file-formats. Furthermore, the visualization component includes virtual reality capabilities. This specialized approach allows for a timesaving virtual design process of electrical machines.