News

1 - Predefine Output/Output Manager structure for natural flow of design/simulation process and better management of multiple plots.

This is a major new enhancement to the INTEGRATED’s line of products and will have many practical benefits for static and time harmonic solutions and it will be even more valuable for those users who want to solve problems that are time dependent.

The major conceptual change is that user specifies the outputs required BEFORE the problem is solved. This feature is especially beneficial if you want to solve a problem and see how changing the calculation accuracy, or changing the physics affects the results. You simply specify the outputs you would like once and this data is then stored. If you change the physics or solver settings, you do not need to repeat the sequence of post processing calculations you would like to see.

While the live results from an existing plot is still available, the predefined outputs offer other advantages. Notably, they keep a history of all plots (and other outputs) which can be layered, reviewed, superposed and animated using the Output manager. This means that as you re-solve for any purpose (e.g. to study the effect of solution parameters, or of model variations) you maintain the results obtained so far for easy comparison.

The other significant benefit, regarding this approach, is that you do not have to wait to calculate data, such as force or torque, once the problem is solved. This can be included as a predefined output in which case it will be calculated immediately after the problem is solved as opposed to having to be done interactively after the problem is solved. This is especially valuable when solving large 3D problems.

For transient problems, the total solution data required to be stored at each time step is massive for 3D problems. Thus it is normally only practical to save plots or results (such as force or flux linkage) at each time step. The new Output Manager makes this possible.

2 - Tecplot format data export.

Tecplot is a plotting package used to generate 2D and 3D plots from calculated data. Users who choose to view and manipulate their plots in Tecplot can export plots from the INTEGRATED application to be opened in Tecplot where they can further manipulate and view the data. As Tecplot is specifically a tool for displaying scientific data, it has some powerful options that a standard field solver is unlikely to have. In addition users can pick and choose the features they prefer from each software package.

3 - Faster and more robust geometry operation capabilities in both 2D and 3D programs.

We have tracked down where some of the bottlenecks occur when creating geometry. The most significant of these changes is the ability to enable/disable the Undo command. If this switch is enabled, each time a new command is started, the entire problem data is stored on the hard disk. This can take a significant amount of time. This feature can be disabled by going to Settings>Application Options>General and deselecting the Enable UNDO button.

4 - Significant improvements on matrix solvers and preconditioners for large dense or sparse matrices generated from BEM or FEM.

These progresses provided SINGULA (High frequency field solver) with the capabilities of simulating electrically large structures. In the past many of these problems may have been impractical to solve due to the large computing times.

5 - Transient capabilities have been extended to 3D electric field (COULOMB), eddy current (FARADAY) and heat transfer (CELSIUS) solvers. This is a major new feature as we were unable to handle transient problems in three dimension in previous releases. The current restriction is the transient problems must be solved with the FEM solver.

6 - Enhanced Time Modeler to simulate various types of signals and sources in time domain.

We introduced the ability to model transient boundary conditions and sources in the current version of the software (v8.0). As always, there were some parts of the program that needed strengthening after the initial release. Many of these weaknesses have been addressed.

7 - Translational and rotational motion induced eddy current simulation in Oersted.

The ability to handle motion properly in two dimensions is another major enhancement. This enables the program to deal with true transient motion. This feature is currently available for the FEM solver. At each time step, or alternatively each position, the velocity of the moving object may change.

8 - Translational and rotational velocity induced eddy current simulation in FARADAY. Unlike Oersted the general transient motion is not available. The velocity is assumed to be a constant so the program can calculate the effect of velocity at any position but the actual motion does NOT occur.

9 - Significantly enhanced coils/windings feature in Oersted with some more minor changes in Magneto. All the problems found in V80 of the coils and windings have been alleviated.

10 - Capability to evaluate force/torque on bodies due to external static electric/magnetic fields has been implemented.

11 - More robust verification of boundary conditions in electric and thermal programs has been incorporated.

12 - The programs now offer a built-in shortcut to our enhanced customer login to initiate Support requests. By beginning Support requests with the built in link you will automatically send Integrated some details which frequently slow down the Support process and are tedious for you to include, e.g. finding out the build date of your program, the dongle number, whether it is a 32 or 64 bit system, and so on. You can readily see these details before sending the information. The login method also enables you to upload files too large for your email system and to review your Support requests.