Efficient parallel 3-D computation of electrical machines with Elmer

Janne Sami Keränen, jenni Pippuri, Mika Malinen, Juha Ruokolainen, Peter Råback, Mikko Lyly, Kari Tammi

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    Abstract

    After its recent improvements described here, open source finite element software Elmer is shown to be a highly efficient option for electrical machine modeling. The parallelization of computational burden is shown to be a necessity. The methods implemented enable applying fully parallel computation to electrical machine models, including rotation and electrical circuits. Computational experiments performed demonstrate that Elmer can effectively utilize several hundreds of computational cores in parallel, making it an attractive alternative when computational speed is of high importance.
    Original languageEnglish
    Article number7203704
    Number of pages4
    JournalIEEE Transactions on Magnetics
    Volume51
    Issue number3
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2015
    MoE publication typeA1 Journal article-refereed

    Keywords

    • computational efficiency
    • eddy-current problems
    • electrical machines
    • parallelization
    • preconditioning

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