Electromagnetic modelling takes fewer iterations

An Integrated Engineering Software product story

Edited by the Engineeringtalk editorial team Aug 21, 2008

Substantial speed increases directly benefit designers in helping them deliver products to market faster and help to reduce the overall project costs.

Integrated Engineering Software has developed a new version of its Faraday 3D modelling software that offers ten times faster 3D modelling.

Faraday 6.4 has proven in recent tests to offer substantial speed increases that directly benefit designers in helping them deliver products to market faster and help to reduce the overall project costs.

Faraday 6.4 is a step forward for engineers and scientists requiring multiple, accurate and speedy solutions for a particular design.

The impressive speed increases of Integrated's Faraday 6.4 can be successfully achieved on a computer with 16Gbyte of memory.

Engineers and scientists can benefit from using Faraday 6.4 to design, simulate and optimise complex electromagnetic devices and systems on a computer in both 2D and 3D, before building a physical prototype.

Its high speed modelling capability is beneficial to users needing multiple solutions of a particular design.

Because Faraday 6.4 software is straightforward to use it requires no training.

The parametric solvers in the program allow designers to automatically vary and experiment with geometry, materials and sources.

Thanks to the availability of ever more powerful computers, engineers and physicists can reflect this speed and accuracy in any new component simulation.

Previously, complex modelling had to be solved in workstations due to the lack of speed and development in engineering software programs.

Due to Integrated's recent developments, computers employing Faraday 6.4 software can now solve complex engineering issues with almost the same performance as some powerful workstations.

To prove the speed of its Faraday software, Integrated's engineers carried out tests on different machines using versions 6.3 and 6.4 of the Faraday software to solve a nonlinear magnetic model with 11,000 2D elements; 24,000 unknowns; 10,000 3D elements; the test used 10Gbyte of memory for solving the matrix equation and took 12 nonlinear iterations to converge.

On version 6.3, the test took 27 hours 17 minutes.

Using the new Faraday 6.4 software it took just 2 hours 38 minutes, demonstrating that Integrated's parametric utility can be used to optimise designs which were not previously feasible.

For designers running on PCs with quad processors and 16Gbyte of memory or more, the time-savings are even more significant.

Bruce Klimpke, Technical Director at Integrated comments: "For companies performing complex engineering 3D modelling, Faraday 6.4 presents them with, what we believe to be the most cost effective solution to bring successful designs to fruition in the shortest time".

Faraday 6.4 is used for applications such as motors, induction heating, nondestructive testing, circuit simulation, transformers and pacemakers.