Friday 13 April 2012

SYLLABUS-COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN OF ELECTRICAL APPARATUS



EE2035     COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN OF ELECTRICAL APPARATUS            

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AIM

To introduce the basics of Computer Aided Design technology for the design of Electrical Machines.

OBJECTIVES:

At the end of this course the student will be able to
a.    Learn the importance of computer aided design method.
b. Understand the basic electromagnetic field equations and the problem formulation for CADD Applications.

c. Become familiar with Finite Element Method as applicable for Electrical Engineering.

d. Know the organization of a typical CAD package.

e. Apply Finite Element Method for the design of different Electrical apparatus.

UNIT I            INTRODUCTION                                                                                   8

Conventional design procedures - Limitations - Need for field analysis based design - Review of Basic principles of energy conversion - Development of Torque/Force.

UNIT II      MATHEMATICAL FORMULATION OF FIELD PROBLEMS                 9

Electromagnetic Field Equations - Magnetic Vector/Scalar potential - Electrical vector /Scalar potential - Stored energy in Electric and Magnetic fields - Capacitance - Inductance- Laplace and Poisson’s Equations - Energy functional.





UNIT III           PHILOSOPHY OF FEM                                                                  10

Mathematical models - Differential/Integral equations - Finite Difference method - Finite element method - Energy minimization - Variation method- 2D field problems - Discretisation - Shape functions - Stiffness matrix - Solution techniques.


UNIT IV          CAD PACKAGES                                                                              9

Elements of a CAD System -Pre-processing - Modeling - Meshing - Material properties- Boundary Conditions - Setting up solution - Post processing.

UNIT V           DESIGN APPLICATIONS                                                                 9

Voltage Stress in Insulators - Capacitance calculation - Design of Solenoid Actuator - Inductance and force calculation - Torque calculation in Switched Reluctance Motor.

TOTAL : 45 PERIODS

TEXT BOOKS
1.     S.J Salon, ‘Finite Element Analysis of Electrical Machines’, Kluwer Academic Publishers, London, 1995.
2.  Nicola Bianchi, ‘Electrical Machine Analysis using Finite Elements’, CRC Taylor&Francis, 2005.

REFERENCES
1.   Joao Pedro, A. Bastos and Nelson Sadowski, ‘Electromagnetic Modeling by finite Methods’, Marcell Dekker Inc., 2003.

2.   P.P.Silvester and Ferrari, ‘Finite Elements for Electrical Engineers’, Cambridge university press,1983.

3.   D.A.Lowther and P.P Silvester, ‘Computer Aided Design in Magnetics’, Springer, verlax new York, 1986

4.    S.R.H.Hoole, ‘Computer Aided Analysis and Design of Electromagnetic Devices’, Elsevier, Newyork, 1989. User Manuals of MAGNET, MAXWELL & ANSYS Software’s.

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