CD-adapco and JSOL to collaborate

Computer-aided engineering software provider CD-adapco has signed a collaborative development agreement with JSOL, the authors of the JMAG electromagnetics code, to jointly develop co-simulation methods in the domain to coupled thermal and electromagnetic simulations.

The partnership was begun during 2013 when establishing a data transfer process between the two companies’ simulation codes, passing electromagnetic loss distributions and component temperature distributions. The performance of components within the majority of electromagnetic devices are temperature dependent; therefore, finding the final 5% of an optimum design requires the co-simulation of these processes.

“Enabling the co-simulation of both thermal and electromagnet phenomena will allow users to truly optimise product designs,” said Jean-Claude Ercolanelli, CD-adapco senior vice president product management. “This collaboration builds on the existing relationship and data transfer methods already being used between our STAR-CCM+ product and JSOL’s JMAG code.”

“We are very pleased to be partnering with CD-adapco,” said Takashi Yamada, manager of the electromagnetic engineering group at JSOL. “We hope that together we can provide smooth and reliable multiphysics/multidisciplinary simulations with STAR-CCM+ and JMAG.”

Example problems are now being trialled and a first release is expected in 2015.