CST EM STUDIO®
Technical Specifications
1 May 2016
Frontend Module
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For functionality and CAD/EDA import filter, see technical specifications of the CST STUDIO SUITE®
Electrostatic Solver
- Isotropic and (coordinate-dependent) anisotropic material properties
- Support of hexahedral meshes as well as linear and curved tetrahedral meshes
- Sources: potentials, charges on conductors (floating potentials), uniform volume- and surface-charge densities, capacitive field grading
- Force calculation
- Capacitance calculation
- Electric / magnetic / tangential / normal / open / fixed-potential boundary-conditions
- Perfect conducting sheets and wires
- Discrete edge capacitive elements at any location in the structure
- Adaptive mesh refinement in 3D
- Higher order representation of the solution with tetrahedral mesh
- Automatic parameter studies using built-in parameter sweep tool
- Automatic structure optimization for arbitrary goals using built-in optimizer
- Network distributed computing for optimizations, parameter sweeps and remote calculations
- Coupled simulations with Mechanical Solver from CST MPHYSICS STUDIO®
- Equivalent Circuit EMS/DS Co-Simulation for constant material properties
Magnetostatic Solver
- 3D- and 2D- problem support.
- Isotropic and (coordinate-dependent) anisotropic material properties
- Nonlinear material properties
- Laminated material properties
- Support of hexahedral meshes as well as linear and curved tetrahedral meshes
- Sources: coils, permanent magnets, current paths, external fields, stationary current fields, current ports
- Discrete edge inductances at any location in the structure
- Force and force density calculation
- Apparent and incremental inductance calculation
- Flux linkages
- Electric / magnetic / tangential / normal / open boundary-conditions
- Rotational periodicity for 2D problems
- Adaptive mesh refinement for 2D and 3D solver
- Higher order representation of the solution with tetrahedral and triangular meshes
- Automatic parameter studies using built-in parameter sweep tool
- Automatic structure optimization for arbitrary goals using built-in optimizer
- Network distributed computing for optimizations, parameter sweeps and remote calculations
- Coupled simulations with Mechanical Solver from CST MPHYSICS STUDIO
- Equivalent Circuit EMS/DS Co-Simulation for constant and nonlinear material properties
Stationary Current Solver
- Isotropic and (coordinate-dependent) anisotropic material properties
- Nonlinear electrical conductivity properties
- Temperature dependent materials with coupling to CST MPHYSICS STUDIO
- Electric contact resistance
- Support of hexahedral meshes as well as linear and curved tetrahedral meshes
- Sources: current paths, potentials, current ports, coil segments
- Conductance calculation
- Discrete edge resistances at any location in the structure
- Perfect conducting sheets and wires
- Electric / magnetic / normal / tangential boundary-conditions
- Adaptive mesh refinement in 3D
- Higher order representation of the solution with tetrahedral mesh
- Automatic parameter studies using built-in parameter sweep tool
- Automatic structure optimization for arbitrary goals using built-in optimizer
- Network distributed computing for optimizations, parameter sweeps and remote calculations
- Coupled simulations with Thermal Solver from CST MPHYSICS STUDIO
- Equivalent Circuit EMS/DS Co-Simulation for constant material properties
LF Frequency Domain Solver
- Isotropic and (coordinate-dependent) anisotropic material properties
- Temperature dependent materials with coupling to CST MPHYSICS STUDIO
- Support of hexahedral meshes as well as linear and curved tetrahedral meshes
- Electroquasistatic analysis
- Magnetoquasistatic analysis (eddy current approximation)
- Full wave analysis
- Sources for electroquasistatic analysis: potentials
- Sources for full wave and magnetoquasistatic analysis:
coils, current paths, voltage paths, external fields ,current ports
- Impedance calculation
- Force calculation
- Perfect conducting sheets and wires
- Lumped R, L, C elements at any location in the structure
- Surface impedance model for good conducting metals
- Electric- / magnetic- and open-boundary-conditions
- Adaptive mesh refinement in 3D
- Higher order representation of the solution with tetrahedral mesh
- Automatic parameter studies using built-in parameter sweep tool
- Automatic structure optimization for arbitrary goals using built-in optimizer
- Network distributed computing for optimizations, parameter sweeps and remote calculations
- Coupled simulations with Thermal Solver from CST MPHYSICS STUDIO
LF Time Domain Solver
- Isotropic and (coordinate-dependent) anisotropic material properties
- Magnetoquasistatic analysis (eddy current approximation), 3D- and 2D- problem support
- Electroquasistatic analysis
- Nonlinear material properties (within the magnetoquasistatic analysis)
- Iron Loss computation
- Support of linear and curved tetrahedral meshes
- Sources for the magnetoquasistatic analysis: coils, coil segments, current paths, voltage paths, permanent magnets, external magnetic source field
- Sources for electroquasistatic analysis: potentials
- Magnetoquasistatic analysis: perfect conducting sheets and wires
- Electric / magnetic boundary-conditions
- Higher order representation of the solution with tetrahedral mesh
- User defined excitation signals and signal database
- Adaptive time stepping for 3D models
- Rigid body motion for 2D models with overlapping rotation and translation
- Periodicity boundary condition (translation) and subvolume (rotation)
- Demagnetization monitors
- Network distributed computing remote calculations
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2D and 3D field vizualisation
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Integration and vizualisation of fields along arbitrary paths
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Flux integration
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Force and torque calculation
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Capacitance- / inductance / conductance calculation
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Export of electromagnetic field data
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Advanced reporting facilities
Automation
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Fully parametric 3D modelling
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VBA macro language
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OLE automation server
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Template based postprocessing
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Automatic, multi-dimensional parameter sweeps
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Automatic structure optimization for arbitrary goals using built-in optimizer
Documentation
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CST STUDIO SUITE® - Getting Started
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CST EM STUDIO® - Workflow and Solver Overview
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Online Help System, including step-by-step tutorials
Minimum Hardware Requirements
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Intel® Xeon® based PC, 4 GB RAM (8 GB recommended), DVD drive, at least 30 GB of free hard disc space (60 GB recommended).
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Fully OpenGL compliant graphic card
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Windows 7, Windows 2008 Server R2, Windows 8, Windows 2012 Server, Windows 8.1, Windows 2012 Server R2 and Windows 10
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All solvers support RedHat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.x, 6.x and 7.x. and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 11.x. Some features may not be available, however.
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Hardware recommendation depends on your application. If in doubt, please contact your local sales office for further information. For further details, please see our hardware recommendations.
General
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CST EM STUDIO® is a configurable tool with a choice of 5 solver modules. The standard configuration is one full process with the static solver bundle and one additional frontend. Floating and node-locked licenses are available. Please contact your local sales office for further information.
- Note: some solvers or features may be available for hexahedral or tetrahedral meshes only.