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ELECTROMAGNETICS AND PLASMA
ELECTROMAGNETIC SIMULATION
What?
Modeling of
- Electric coils
- Permanent magnets
- Ferromagnetic materials with non-linear B-H curves and hystereses
- DC and AC processes
- Electrothermic coupling
- Electromagnetic coupling
What for?
- Electric and magnetic fields
- Thermally induced deformation and stress
- Forces and torques from electromagnetic fields
- Skin effects and motion-induced eddy currents
- Magnetization of materials
With what?
- Ansys
- Comsol
- CST/Opera
Questions?
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Plasma Simulation
What?
- Simulation of charge carriers (ions and electrons) under the influence of electric and magnetic fields
- Development of low-pressure plasma in space
What for?
- Influence of chamber geometry and orifices as well as eddy currents on plasma development
- Course of an electron beam under the influence of the magnetic field
- Intensity and distribution of back-scattered electrons of the electron beam
- Optimization of sputter and etch processes
With what?
- PICMC
- Opera
Questions?
Dr. Georg Haasemann |
Mechanics
Static
What?
- Modelling of complex, geometric structures
- Simulation of various strains
- Continuous or variable external forces
- Accelerations such as gravitational or seismic accelerations
- Temperature shifts including thermal expansion or tensions
- Simulation of interactions between objects
- Screw connections
- Frictionless contacts
- Taking various material properties into consideration
- Linearly and non-linearly elastic
- Elastic-plastic
- Viscoelastic
- Isotropic and anisotropic
- Coupling in multi-physical calculations
What for?
- Calculation of deformations and tensions of structures
- Structural optimization
- Comparison of variants
- Parametric optimization
- Structural optimization for additive manufacturing
- Quake protection of machines and plants
- Coupling in multi-physical calculations
With what?
- Ansys Mechanical
Questions?
Dr. Georg Haasemann |
Dynamic
What?
Modeling and simulation with
- Finite Element Method (FEM)
- Multi-body simulation (MBS)
The following are taken into consideration building on the possibilities of static simulation:
- Time-varying loads and constraints
- Inertia effects
- Speed and acceleration-dependent behavior
What for?
- Time-varying deformations and stresses in components
- Matching stiffnesses and damping in case of dynamic stimuli
- Speeds, accelerations and bearing forces in mechanisms
With what?
- Ansys Mechanical
- Matlab/Simscape
Questions?
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Strength & Weld Seams
FLOW (CFD) AND GAS FLOW (DSMC)
What?
- Liquids and gases
- Gases in molecular
- Knudsen and viscous pressure range
- Laminar and turbulent flows
- Multi-phase flows
- Buoyant flows
- Heat transfer
What for?
- Flow optimization, for example in cooling channels or tempering furnaces
- Calculation and optimization of heat transfer coefficients
- Mechanical loads on components due to flow
- Speed distribution in flowing media
- Pressure distribution and coating processes in vacuum chambers
With what?
- Solver: Ansys CFX, ANSYS fluent, OpenFOAM, PICLas
- Meshing: Ansys Meshing
- Post-processing: CFX-Post, paraView
Questions?
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System Dynamics
What?
- Modeling and simulation of dynamic processes
- Integration and coupling of different physical processes
- Mechanic
- Thermal
- Electrics
- Electromagnetism
- Hydraulics
- Thermal fluid flow
- Multi-phase fluid flow
- Gas flow
- Vacuum
- Programming of libraries for the
- implementation of special physical processes
- creation of user-specific elements
- Development of standalone applications with
- integrated dynamic models
- variable parameters
- custom GUI
What for?
- Investigation and optimization of dynamic processes, such as
- The motion sequence of mechanisms/robots
- The course of pressure in the hydraulic systems
- The development of the fluid temperature in cooling systems
- The pump-down behavior with different vacuum pumps
- Development of suitable control models and their parameters
- Provision of independent applications for independent calculations
With what?
- Simulink and Simscape
Questions?
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Thermal
What?
- Stationary and transient thermal processes
- Simulation of heat transfer through
- Free and forced convection
- Heat radiation
- Thermal conduction of non-linear and anisotrophic material
- Modeling of complex structures, including
- Heater
- Radiant sheets
- Coolers
- Physical interactions, such as
- Thermal expansion
- Heat development from electric current
- Thermal lift of air
What for?
- Temperature distribution in machines with heat source and cooling
- Calculation of heat-up processes with temperature curves and maximum achievable temperatures
- Adaptation of the heater arrangement and design to optimize the temperature homogeneity
With what?
- Ansys
- Simulink and Simscape
Questions?
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