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electric circuits with ELMER
Posted: 21 Nov 2017, 13:05
by cris91
Hi all,
I'm trying to run a transient simulation with a simple C-core model (all the scripts are attached).
I obtained good results with the series connection of the 2 FEM components.
Now, I want to realize the parallel connection between the 2 FEM components. I tried to write the circuit code but
the results are wrong. The voltage and the current of the right FEM component are zero.
The problem is that I do not know how to build the matrices "B" and "source". I know the meaning of the column index but I don't understand the row one. The model documentation does not report this procedure.
(I have already read the Tutorials about the SPM and IM of Pavel Ponomarev)
Is there any documentation that explains such problem?
Thanks a lot
Elmer writes FE component equation rows automatically
Posted: 21 Nov 2017, 15:45
by Takala
Hi,
Quickly looking at your circuits, they seem mostly fine, but there is one critical problem:
When the circuit equations are written, one must avoid defining equations to the component rows.
This is because Elmer defines the component rows automatically to the voltage variable row of each
component. Hence, if you have defined
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! define circuit variables
$ C.1.name.1 = "i_su"
$ C.1.name.2 = "v_su"
$ C.1.name.3 = "i_component(1)" ! <-- coil left
$ C.1.name.4 = "v_component(1)"
$ C.1.name.5 = "i_component(2)" ! <-- coil right
$ C.1.name.6 = "v_component(2)"
then you cannot define equations to rows 4 nor 6. This means Matc indices 3 nor 5.
So replacing this
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!2-nd loop
$ C.1.B(3,1) = -1
$ C.1.B(3,5) = 1
with this
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!2-nd loop
$ C.1.B(4,1) = -1
$ C.1.B(4,5) = 1
should fix the issue.
BR,
Eelis
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Re: electric circuits with ELMER
Posted: 22 Nov 2017, 10:53
by cris91
Thank you Takala,
Now I've got what I need. I will try to test other more complex circuits.
Re: electric circuits with ELMER
Posted: 22 Nov 2018, 00:18
by zeljkoT
Hi Eelis
In your Test example you defined a circuit with a current source connected with the "FEM-component" in series.
How would the B matrix looks like if instead a current a voltage source is applied?
I would set:
And in this case, not the voltage of the component will be calculated but the current? So MATC row 2 must be empty, rigth?
In addition, the voltage relation between v_source and v_component is: v_source-v_component=0, leeds to current and voltage relation in the appendix.
But this definition is not right, since I got strange results in the B re field.
Any advice?
BR and thx
Zeljko
Re: electric circuits with ELMER
Posted: 23 Nov 2018, 14:02
by zeljkoT
So, I got the model running with current and voltage sources respectively.
Compared the results to Infolytica and it works at least.
Check out the sif file.
But im still strugelling to understand how to built the B matrix for another circuit.
Considering an open circuit calculation of a transformer one can connect the second winding to a very high resistor. Check out the drawing in the appendix.
How does the cirucuit file looks like (B matrix)? If I ad the second circuit I got: ERROR:: RealBiCGStab(l): Breakdown error: bnrm = NaN.
Any suggestions?
Cheers