Lecture 05: PEmag Assorted Features

PExprt User Guide

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 Main Effects to be considered

Physical Typically
effects known as:

Skin Leakage inductance

Proximity +
Gap effects AC resistance
End effects Produce +
parasitic
Energy storage capacitances
(electric+magnetic)
and
losses

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 Skin Effect

Skin depth

1

f 0

At high frequency, current tends

to flow through the surface

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 Proximity Effect

Opposite currents Parallel currents

Opposite currents tend to flow together

Parallel currents tend to separate

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 Air Gap Effect

Flux distribution Current density distribution

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 Twisted wire type
This can be used to
model every strand
in a Litz wire for
actual skin and
proximity effect
Practical limit is
<1000 strands total
in the model

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 Electrostatic shields modeling
Shields should
be inserted as an
extra winding

Shield

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 Center Tapped Windings
Must be modeled
as two
independent
windings
Connect together
later in the
Simplorer
simulation
Center tap

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 Effective Value Calculation
PEmag can
calculate the
effective area and
length of a core
Based on the IEC
calculation method

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 Margin Tapes
Can add top or center
margin tapes to the
winding

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 Numbering bobbin pins

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 Move Layer Feature

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 Parallel Layer Feature

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 PEmag and Simplorer
Review e10 lab for process using PEmag and Simplorer

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 Review Afternoon Labs
e06 Example - Comparing Interleaving Effects
e07 Example - Integrated Magnetics
e08 Example - Buck Converter with Simplorer
Process to add PEmag model into Simplorer
SMPS lib and Converter design process
e09 Example - Forward Converter with Simplorer
Compare magnetic modeling approaches in Simplorer
JA core model vs PEmag
e10 Example - 3ph to 6ph transformer_rev1
40min solve, Topic Covered in previous labs, do on own time

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