This presentation was held at the 2020 NAFEMS UK Conference "Inspiring Innovation through Engineering Simulation". The conference covered topics ranging from traditional FEA and CFD, to new and emerging areas including artificial intelligence, machine learning and EDA.

Resource Abstract

More integrated and holistic development strategies will be necessary in the future to better meet the requirements of e-powertrain without significant sacrifices on target fulfillment. Optimization methodologies and processes offer opportunities to support such integrated development strategies.

This presentation offers insight into how the advanced drivetrain development of the Porsche AG together with Altair have approached the challenge of improving the total design balance in E-motor development. It will be shown how different physics simulation and optimization tools are combined and integrated to create a process for multi-physics E-motor optimization. Some details on coupling strategies will be discussed and It will be shown that such a process has the potential to improve the total design balance compared to classical motor design methodologies.