PADEM Progettazione Automatica Dispositivi Elettro Magnetici-Automatic Design of Electro Magnetic Devices

The course aims to give students the knowledge required  for the practical use of modern design tools able to solve electrical and magnetic fields problems through learning appropriate computer codes currently used for this purpose. The student improves his knowledge about the opportunities offered by this modern design tools and at the same time their limitations. The course includes a series of computer exercises. During the numerical laboratory, students  are trained to use a commercial FEM code for solving all the problems as listed in the program. Some simple practical experiments are also developed in order to verify the calculation results.

CONTENT

Classification of Maxwell's equations
Analytical methods for solving electromagnetic problems
Numerical methods: finite differences, integral volume
Variational methods and the weighted residuals method as an introduction to finite element
The finite element method
Formulations for 2D Electrostatic problems
Formulations for 2D Magnetostatic problems
Treatment of non-linear material properties
Formulations for problems of time-varying fields with 2D sine law
Formulation for transient magnetic 2D problems
Formulation for magnetostatic problems and time-harmonic 3D
Optimization
Numerical laboratory using Flux2D
Practical laboratory
Homework
Report about the homework