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 language | English |
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Article number | 7203704 |
Number of pages | 4 |
Journal | IEEE Transactions on Magnetics |
Volume | 51 |
Issue number | 3 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2015 |
MoE publication type | A1 Journal article-refereed |
Keywords
- computational efficiency
- eddy-current problems
- electrical machines
- parallelization
- preconditioning