一个强大的新版本的opera电磁学模拟器的设计工程师已被释放的科巴姆技术服务。最新的软件添加三维机械应力分析，扩展该工具的多场耦合能力提供单步解决复杂的设计问题。通过捕获机械变形的电磁与热模拟结合，集成的软件可以大大降低设计复杂性和时间尺度。

opera版本 15，从矢量领域软件业务部门的科巴姆的技术服务，为电磁应用程序提供了完整的设计-模拟-分析-优化的工具链。软件是模拟其精度和执行 — — 允许要求模拟标准厅级 Pc 上解决速度而闻名。它有大量的变异，包括有限元分析 (FEA) 静态和时变电磁场，和求解旋转电机、 超导磁体，带电粒子光束设备和磁化/消磁过程的特定于应用程序的方法。先进的材料模型，如有耗介质绝缘和磁滞回线，把opera在切削刃的模拟能力。 opera的电磁模型也可加第三方系统仿真工具 Simulink 中可用。

新三个三维应力分析模块为变形的材料，在弹性限度内解决，并可能结合电磁的求解器提供对虚拟样机技术的单步执行解决方案。除了应力和应变产生的机械载荷应用和电磁感应部队，opera的热分析模块可用于共同模拟热膨胀系数。重力或旋转诱导的力的影响也可以列入设计模拟。

该软件的最新版本 15 延伸的基本性能优势opera为工程应用的许多共同设计。例如，机械变形是重要的考虑因素大和超导磁体和电气设备的设计和线圈的变压器、 电动机、 发电机及致动器。超导磁体线圈能够承受在淬火或定子端部绕组的发电机短路条件下的机械完整性产生的机械力是关键的设计要求。

很多其他增强功能被列入新版本的opera，来简化并加速设计进程。其中之一支持快速创建模型的线圈，通过提供下施工，以指导用户输入设计数据模型的动态图案表示。这扩展了opera的现有用户友好方法创建模型的线圈 （和其他常见的结构），允许用户从一个库，选择常见的结构形式，然后输入设计数据使用对话框。

以帮助最终优化的设计，科巴姆opera软件包可以提供一种先进的自动优化工具，设计了专门为其有限元方法。此工具是能够算出一个或多个目标的最佳解决方案 — — 即使他们互相竞争。

A powerful new version of the opera electromagnetics simulator for design engineers has been released by Cobham Technical Services. The latest software adds three-dimensional mechanical stress analysis, extending the tool’s multiphysics capability to provide a single-step solution to complex design problems. By capturing mechanical deformation in conjunction with electromagnetic and thermal modelling, the integrated software can greatly reduce design complexity and timescales.

opera version 15, from the Vector Fields Software business unit of Cobham Technical Services, provides a complete design-simulate-analyze-optimize toolchain for electromagnetic applications. The software is renowned for its accuracy of simulation and speed of execution – allowing demanding simulations to be solved on standard office-grade PCs. It is available in a number of variants that include finite element analysis (FEA) for static and time-varying electromagnetic fields, and application-specific solvers for rotating electrical machines, superconducting magnets, charged particle beam devices, and magnetization/demagnetization processes. Advanced material models, such as lossy dielectric insulation and magnetic hysteresis, put opera at the cutting edge of simulation capability. opera ’s electromagnetic models may also be coupled with third-party system simulation tools available within Simulink.

The new three dimensional stress analysis module solves for deformations within the elastic limit of the materials, and may be coupled with the electromagnetic solvers to provide a single-step solution to virtual prototyping. In addition to stress and strain produced by the application of mechanical loads and by electromagnetically induced forces, opera ’s thermal analysis module may be used to co-simulate thermal expansion. The effects of gravity or rotationally induced forces can also be incorporated in design simulations.

The latest version 15 of the software extends the fundamental performance advantage of opera for many common design engineering applications. For instance, mechanical deformation is a vital consideration in the design of large and superconducting magnets, and electrical equipment and coils in transformers, motors, generators and actuators. The ability of a superconducting magnet’s coils to withstand the mechanical forces generated during a quench, or the mechanical integrity of the stator end windings of a generator subject to a short-circuit condition, are critical design requirements.

Many other enhancements are incorporated in the new release of opera , to simplify and speed the design process. One of these supports the rapid creation of models of coils, by providing a dynamic pictorial representation of the model under construction, to guide the user as design data is entered. This extends opera ’s existing user-friendly approach to creating models of coils (and other common structures) which allows a user to select common forms of construction from a library, and then enter the design data using dialog boxes.

To aid the final optimization of a design, Cobham’s opera software package can be supplied with an advanced auto-optimization tool that has been designed specifically to work with its finite element methods. This tool is able to work out the best solution for one or multiple goals — even when they compete with each other