Engineers and mathematicians both love to speak about convergence, often confusing the everloving waste out of each other. Read here to avoid that fate.
Solving TEAM30a with SMEKlib and Comsol
How to solve the TEAM Workshop Problem 30a with SMEKlib, plus a comparison between it and Comsol. This time, SMEKlib was 5 times faster.
Periodicity, Symmetry Sectors, and Associated Errors
Electrical machines are often simulated with symmetry sectors and periodicity conditions. This speeds up things a lot, but occasionally leads to weirdness.
Fixing a 100-Year Old Mistake with SMEKlib
You’ve seen the textbook example of skin effect in rectangular slot-bound conductors. But what happens when the textbook is (slightly) wrong?
Last Week’s FEA Tonight with Antti
Elsewhere in FEAsphere: failure modes, and how and why they are indeed uncertain. Plus stochastics in buckling, and some collaboration in the making.
SMEKlib now Published – Take your FEA to the Next Level!
I’ve started publishing my work in SMEKlib – An Open Source 2D FEA Library for Electric Machines in Matlab. Click here for more info!
Linear Buckling – Don’t Miss Out!
Linear buckling – so hot right now! Check out my brief outsider’s overview, and join the discussion with proper specialists!
What’s Troubling Engineers – Future Posts!
Conclusion of the Electromechanics Survey. Common issues identified for the people on this awesome field – future posts will address the key problems.
SMEKlib to be Published OpenSource + Free Course on FEA!
SMEKlib – a Matlab library for analysing electrical machines – to be published OpenSource in the near future. Plus some other news.
Frequency Response Analysis – When Motors Explode
Frequency response analysis is used to analyze how a system reacts to a specific excitation. Or, as I like to put it, when things explode.