ElecNet
: Features

ElecNet은 유한 요소법을 사용하여 전계 강도, 힘, 커패시턴스 및 기타 양을 계산합니다. 각 모듈은 다양한 유형의 전기장을 시뮬레이트하도록 설계되었으며 2D 및 3D 설계를 위해 별도로 사용할 수 있습니다.

Electric Field Solvers

Transient or Time-varying electric fields

  • Simulates transient electric fields produced by transient voltages

  • Non-linear permittivity and conductivity

  • Accounts for displacement currents

  • Supports floating conductors

  • Electrical conduction and lossy dielectrics

  • Second-order time stepping

  • Resume Feature: pause at a particular time step for inspection

AC or Time Harmonic electric fields

  • Simulates electric fields produced by specified AC voltages

  • Analysis based on a single frequency using phasors (complex domain)

  • Accounts for displacement currents

  • Supports floating conductors

  • Electrical conduction and lossy dielectrics

Static fields

  • Simulates static electric fields produced by specified DC voltages and charge distributions

  • Supports floating conductors

Current Flow

  • Simulates the DC current distribution produced by specified DC voltages on electrodes in contact with conducting material

Common Solver Features

  • All solvers are multithreaded for true multicore support

  • Symmetry for reducing solution domain

  • Parametric Module for "What if?" analysis

  • Coupling with ThermNet 2D/3D

  • Optimization with OptiNet

Geometric Modeling & Importing

  • 3D ACIS® Modeler from Spatial

  • DXF/SAT imported natively

  • Pro/E, STEP, IGES, CATIA and Inventor import modules available

  • Full Boolean operations

  • Multi-Sweep function for complex geometries

Meshing Tools

  • Adaptive strategy determines where refinements are needed after each step by:

  • Subdividing elements (2D/3D)

  • Increasing the polynomial order (3D)

  • Both techniques combined (3D)

  • Mesh layers for skin depth analysis and highly anisotropic volume elements

  • Separate mesh for coupled thermal problems (with ThermNet)

  • Extensive manual meshing controls

Material Library

  • Pre-defined library of linear, nonlinear and anisotropic materials

  • Advanced loss computation based on Steinmetz equation

  • User-defined easily added with Material Editor & curve fitting utilities

Parametric Studies & What-if Analysis

  • Perform multiple experiments for "What if?" analysis

  • Any quantity can be parameterized (e.g. geometric features, materials, mesh settings) and can be varied through a user-specified range of values

Scripting

  • Automate repetitive tasks

  • Link to third party software such as Excel® or MatLab®

  • Customize ElecNet for your needs

Results - Quantities, Fields & Charts

  • Electric Field Intensity (E)

  • Voltage

  • Electric Energy

  • Flux Density

  • Force

  • Net Current Flow

  • Power Loss

  • Displacement Field

  • Current density

  • Conductivity

  • Resistance and capacitance matrices of electrodes

  • And more

Post-Processing

All of the data is available in a variety of formats and easily accessible with the Post-Processing and Project toolbars:

  • Detailed field visualizations

  • Charts

  • Field probing

  • Export to Excel