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Vector conducts electromagnetic design tool
Vector Fields has released a new version of the high-frequency electromagnetic design tool Concerto to help RF designers exploit the properties of metamaterials, as part of its work for AMULET.
News from Engineeringtalk, 8 September 2008
Online video explains electromagnetic optimisation
Video illustrates a process that makes automatic optimisation possible, and within practical timescales for almost any scale of problem.
News from Engineeringtalk, 15 April 2008
Software allows model design in minutes
Vector Fields' application-specific version of the Opera package provides a front-end to the electromagnetic simulator that speeds design entry by means of "fill in the blanks" dialogue boxes.
News from Engineeringtalk, 14 March 2008
Tool optimises electromagnetic simulation
Intelligent design optimisation tool automatically finds the best solution to a design problem, even if a user specifies several or even competing objectives.
News from Engineeringtalk, 8 January 2008
Software helps develop magnetic innovations
Magnomatics' designs can feature very large numbers of magnetic poles, with no magnetic symmetry that would allow the scale of the simulation to be reduced.
News from Engineeringtalk, 20 November 2007
Electromagnetic software provides new options
Opera is available in numerous variants, with generic 2D and 3D finite element analysis (FEA) solvers for static and time-varying electromagnetic fields and with application-specific solvers.
News from Engineeringtalk, 10 October 2007
Software aids generator design
The Hydrogenie project is relying on Vector Fields' electromagnetic simulator to design a compact hydroelectric power generator offering up to 99% efficiency.
News from Engineeringtalk, 12 September 2007
FEA creates motor models quickly
Design ideas can be trialled and optimised by varying the values of model parameters, or alternatively by means of an automatic optimisation tool.
News from Engineeringtalk, 23 May 2007
Design tools ease electromagnetic CAE
Hyper Vector Fields' CAE packages open up the potential of virtual prototyping to much smaller electronics companies in the high frequency and RF sectors.
News from Engineeringtalk, 28 March 2007
Software simulates magnet characteristics
Vector Fields' Demag solver allows designers to optimise equipment designs by accurately simulating both the magnetisation process.
News from Engineeringtalk, 27 February 2007
Telescope evaluation sings with Opera
Massachusetts Institute of Technology uses Opera design software from Vector Fields to evaluate the magnetic performance of actuator designs for the JW Space Telescope, the successor to Hubble.
News from Engineeringtalk, 13 December 2005
Software simulates fields precisely
Opera computer simulation has allowed Canadian research scientists to achieve the tightest specification to date for a magnetic field generated by a pulse forming network.
News from Engineeringtalk, 15 November 2005
Software simulates fusion reactor on a standard PC
Electromagnetic simulation is playing a major role in the design of a Tokamak fusion reactor by calculating eddy currents in the diverter that controls plasma particle exhaust and power removal.
News from Engineeringtalk, 16 September 2005
Simulator predicts microwave heating effects
Concerto version 3.5 from leading software simulation house Vector Fields of Oxford, contains a new module for the analysis of heating effects by microwaves.
News from Engineeringtalk, 17 November 2004
20th anniversary celebrations for Vector Fields
An Oxford based company which "spun off" from the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory celebrated its 20th anniversary last week.
News from Engineeringtalk, 30 September 2004
Simulation helps reduce implanter design cycles
Opera-3D is being used by Varian Semiconductor Equipment Associates to shorten the design cycle for new generations of ion implanters.
News from Engineeringtalk, 29 September 2004
Electromagnetic simulation users to meet in Oxford
To celebrate 20 years of trading, Vector Fields is holding its 2004 User Group Conference at Magdalen College Oxford on 22nd and 23rd September.
News from Engineeringtalk, 23 August 2004
Simulator solves switched reluctance conundrum
Opera 2d simulation software is being continuously developed for the analysis of electrical and magnetic devices, recently adding thermal analyses.
News from Engineeringtalk, 28 October 2003
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