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Summary:
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The Collaborative Research Centre 361 will lay the foundations for the next generation electro-thermal machine design to overcome the challenges of modelling, simulation and optimisation in these multiscale and multiphysical systems. In particular, we address (i) modelling of nonlinear material behaviour, e.g. hysteresis, losses and novel cooling strategies, (ii) simulation of coupled electronic-electromagnetic-mechanical-thermal multiscale dynamical systems, (iii) flexible geometry handling, involving rotating geometry and geometric design, (iv) multiobjective shape and topology optimisation, sensitivity analysis and uncertainty quantification. The innovations in these areas will boost the predictive power of machine models. They will allow design engineers to take full advantage of the recent achievements in the conception of next-generation electric machines.
The CRC/TRR 361 is a transnational cooperation project with the Graz University of Technology, the Johannes Kepler University Linz and the Johann Radon Institute for Computational and Applied Mathematics (RICAM) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.
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