Suggested References
- Electrification Section of Ansys Learning Hub
- Electric Mobility E-Book Ansys Electric Mobility E-Book
- Future Air Mobility (EVTOL) Future Air Mobility Document
- Finite Element Analysis for Engineers: A Primer by Trevor Hellen, Adib A. Becker, International Association for the Engineering Analysis Community, NAFEMS, 2013, ISBN 1874376980, 9781874376989
Training Instructions/Pre-requisites
Welcome aboard! the industry professionals and students, who wants to join physics based simulation learning path in Electric Vehicle/Hybrid Electric Vehicle Segment, he/she MUST posses the following pre-requisites:- Ansys Mechannical Getting Started Training Completion - Get Started with Ansys Mechanical
- Ansys Fluent Getting Started Training Completion - Getting Started with Ansys Fluent
- Ansys Maxwell Getting Started Training Completion - Ansys Maxwell Getting Started
- Ansys HFSS Getting Started Training Completion - Ansys HFSS Getting Started
- Ansys Digital Twin Builder Getting Started Training Completion - Ansys Digital Twin Builder Getting Started
Industry EV Experts - Mentorship
EV Battery Expert Sessions - 1 Hour
EV domain experts from EV/Automotive industries will conduct sessions on: Motor/Motor Controller/Chassis/Battery Pack/EV/HEV Power Train. Experts will also share opportunities of internships, job opportunities, current and future market trends.
EV Battery Digital Twin Expert Sessions - 1 Hour
EV domain experts from EV/Automotive industries will conduct sessions on: Motor/Motor Controller/Chassis/Battery Pack/EV/HEV Power Train. Experts will also share opportunities of internships, job opportunities, current and future market trends.
EV Motor Controller Expert Sessions - 1 Hour
EV domain experts from EV/Automotive industries will conduct sessions on: Motor/Motor Controller/Chassis/Battery Pack/EV/HEV Power Train. Experts will also share opportunities of internships, job opportunities, current and future market trends.
EV Power Electronics Expert Sessions - 1 Hour
EV domain experts from EV/Automotive industries will conduct sessions on: Motor/Motor Controller/Chassis/Battery Pack/EV/HEV Power Train. Experts will also share opportunities of internships, job opportunities, current and future market trends.
EV Battery Structural Integrity Expert Sessions - 1 Hour
EV domain experts from EV/Automotive industries will conduct sessions on: Motor/Motor Controller/Chassis/Battery Pack/EV/HEV Power Train. Experts will also share opportunities of internships, job opportunities, current and future market trends.
EV Battery Thermal Management Expert Sessions - 1 Hour
EV domain experts from EV/Automotive industries will conduct sessions on: Motor/Motor Controller/Chassis/Battery Pack/EV/HEV Power Train. Experts will also share opportunities of internships, job opportunities, current and future market trends.
EV Battery thermal Abuse Expert Sessions - 1 Hour
EV domain experts from EV/Automotive industries will conduct sessions on: Motor/Motor Controller/Chassis/Battery Pack/EV/HEV Power Train. Experts will also share opportunities of internships, job opportunities, current and future market trends.
Sim AI for Automotive Segment Expert Sessions - 1 Hour
EV domain experts from EV/Automotive industries will conduct sessions on: Motor/Motor Controller/Chassis/Battery Pack/EV/HEV Power Train. Experts will also share opportunities of internships, job opportunities, current and future market trends.
0-6 Months EV Basics Learning Path
Comprehensive Guide to Electric Vehicles
This course covers the comprehensive study of Electric Vehicles (EVs), their history, types, benefits, and challenges. It provides an in-depth understanding of the technologies used in EVs
Fundamentals of Electric Vehicles
This course covers the fundamentals of electric vehicles and renewable energy, vehicle performance, energy sources in vehicles, and vehicle auxiliary and charging.
Understanding Electric Vehicles: Indian Perspective
This course covers the comprehensive understanding of electric vehicles, particularly focusing on the Indian context. It starts with the introduction of electric vehicles, their benefits such as reduced pollution, decreased dependence on imported petrol, and their energy efficiency.
Concept of Drive Cycle and Energy Efficiency
This course covers the intricate dynamics of vehicles and their energy efficiency. It starts with the fundamental concept of energy in vehicles, explaining how it acts as fuel and determines the vehicle range.
EV Subsystem Design of Drive Train
This course covers the comprehensive design and functioning of electric vehicle subsystems, with a particular focus on the drive train. It begins by distinguishing the common parts shared with petrol vehicles, such as the body, frame, doors, power windows, wheels, and suspension system, and then delves into the unique components of electric vehicles.
Electric Vehicle Battery Technology
This course covers the comprehensive understanding of electric vehicle battery technology focusing on Lithium-Ion battery. It starts with the concept of storage for electric vehicles, efficiency of batteries and their role in electric vehicles..
Battery Pack Development and Cost
This course covers the comprehensive process of battery pack development and cost, with a particular focus on electric vehicles. It starts with the transition from individual cells to a complete battery pack, discussing the importance of cell behavior, cell balancing, safety, thermal design, and the role of the battery management system.
Thermal Design and Management of Battery Packs
This course covers the comprehensive understanding of thermal design and management in battery packs. It starts with the fundamentals of battery pack design, emphasizing the thermal aspect and its impact on battery performance, safety, and reliability.
Mechanical Design of Battery Packs
This course covers the comprehensive aspects of mechanical design of battery packs. It begins with an understanding of the electrical design, capacity, voltage, and current requirements of a battery pack, using the example of an electric bike.
Electrical Design of Battery Packs
This course covers the comprehensive aspects of designing battery packs, with a particular focus on the electrical design. It starts with the basics of assembling cells into modules and then into a battery pack, emphasizing the importance of parallel and series combinations. The course then delves into the significance of bus bar design, contact resistance, voltage drop, current equalization, and conductor selection.
Electric Vehicle Performance
This course covers the comprehensive understanding of motor design and control. It starts with the basic concept of power conversion in motors, explaining how electrical power is transformed into mechanical power. For instance, it explains how a motor draws current when supplied with a certain voltage, resulting in power measured in watts.
Electric Vehicle and Controllers
This course covers the intricate details of electric vehicle components, focusing on lithium-ion cells, battery packs, cell testing, motors, controllers, and the principles of magnetism and heat flow. For instance, the course delves into the process of making battery packs from cells, the importance of cell testing, and the interpretation of a typical cell data sheet.
Battery Management System Essentials
This course covers the comprehensive understanding of Battery Management Systems (BMS). It starts with the exploration of BMS measurements, emphasizing the importance of sensing voltage, current, temperature, and isolation in a battery pack. It explains, how an Analog to Digital Converter (ADC) is used to measure voltage by converting analog signals into digital values.
Motor Design Engineering Considerations
This course covers the intricate aspects of motor design, selection, performance, and adaptation. For instance, it delves into the causes and mitigation of steel losses in motors, the impact of saturation on motor performance, and the sources of noise in motors.
Thermal Design of EV Motors
This course covers the comprehensive understanding of thermal design in motors. It begins with the concept of heat generation and dissipation in motors, and the role of finite element analysis in thermal design. For instance, the course explains how to model a motor thermally using basic principles of heat flow, applying Ohm law in temperature difference and thermal resistance.
E-Mobility and Vehicle Safety
This course covers the comprehensive aspects of e-mobility and vehicle safety. For instance, it delves into the different types of safety relevant to e-mobility, such as product safety, personal safety, and public safety. It also explores the taxonomy and topology of electric vehicles, explaining the various types of charging infrastructure, energy storage systems, and propulsion.
Guide to EV Charging Infrastructure
This course covers a wide range of topics related to electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure. It starts with an exploration of EV chargers, their types, functions, and the importance of standardization. For instance, the course explains the difference between on-board and public chargers, and the concept of bulk charging.
Energy Storage Options
This course covers the multifaceted aspects of energy storage, particularly in the context of renewable energy. It begins with an exploration of the importance of energy storage, discussing the technology, cost, and subsystems involved in electric vehicles and renewable energy.
Renewable Energy and Sustainability
This course covers the comprehensive understanding of renewable energy sources and their potential in India. It begins with an exploration of India energy scenario, its contribution to global warming, and the potential of renewable energy sources like solar and wind energy.
Electric and Hybrid Vehicles
This course covers the comprehensive understanding of electric and hybrid vehicle systems and configurations. It provides exposure to multidisciplinary engineering exposure to different systems, including electrical, mechanical, and chemical engineering. EVs & HEVs) their respective designs, and their advantages.
Dynamics and Simulation of EV
This course covers the comprehensive understanding of vehicle dynamics in electric vehicles. It starts with the simulation of dynamic equations, focusing on the derivation of different dynamic equations with variable tractive effort forces.
6 - 24 Months Learning Path
Battery Preprocessing for Structural Analysis
The increasing maturity of battery simulation processes to replicate physical lab tests accurately enables fewer physical prototypes and accelerated time to market. These benefits of simulation come with challenges of their own unless engineers use proven and validated methods when constructing simulation models.
Electric Machines: Specification & Initial Design
This course is designed for existing users of ANSYS Mechanical. You will learn and achieve an understanding of the available material models for plastics simulation. This course also covers some testing procedures to extract tests data for Ansys simulations.
Electric Machines: High-Fidelity Electromagnetics Modeling
This course covers, how to leverage Ansys simulation suite to perform high-fidelity EM analysis of electric machines. It walks through workflows to get the best simulation performances and results.
Electric Machines: NVH & Acoustics
This course covers, how to leverage Ansys simulation suite for NVH and acoustics analysis of either the electric motor or full e-drivetrain (motor + gearbox).
Electric Machines:Thermal Design and Optimization
This course covers, how to leverage Ansys simulation suite for advanced thermal modeling for the purpose of the design and its optimization for motors.
Electric Machines: Thermal Management Design Validation
This course covers, how to leverage Ansys multiphysics platform for high-fidelity motor thermal modeling. This includes 2D/3D EM to 3D CFD/Thermal model coupling. Also, covers various cooling types for electric motors (e.g. air-cool, spray oil-cooled).
Electric Machines: System Modeling
This course covers, Learn how to leverage Ansys simulation suite to create system models that can be used for evaluating motor sub-system performance under complex drive scenarios (e.g. diff. driving cycles). The rest of the electric drivetrain is assumed to be either modeled already or to be represented as direct inputs to the motor model.
NVH Analysis of a E-GearBox/Axle
This course covers, how to perform NVH analysis for E-Axle System to study the effect of drivetrain components including bearings, gears, shaft sets and a Housing to NVH performance.
Gearbox Sloshing in Ansys LS-DYNA ISPH
The scope of this course is to cover higher operating speed characteristics result in higher frictional and heat losses, which could negatively affect the efficiency of the drivetrain resulting in unexpected failure. To address this concern engineers are required to design the gearboxes with efficient lubrication and cooling, which means they need to have access to tools to help them understand and decide on the right lubricant characteristics, amount and splash or flow pattern. LS-DYNA incompressible smooth particle hydrodynamics (ISPH) feature, which has fast numerical method to simulate and analyze sloshing and cooling in gearboxes.
Electrified Propulsion: Architecture Selection
This course covers, how to leverage Ansys simulation suite for architecture selection of the electric drivetrain.
Electrification Webinar Series
Electric Machine Webinar Series
This webinar series focuses on design and analysis of electric machines, and presents many of the technology capabilities offered by Ansys simulation tools including full-length presentations as well as short demonstrations.
Power Electronics Webinar Series
This webinar series focuses on design and analysis of power electronics components and systems. The optimization of signal integrity, power integrity, EMI/EMC capabilities has been demonstrated.
Battery Webinar Series
This webinar presents an electrothermal coupled Li-ion battery pack model with cold plate liquid cooling, a common design in electric vehicles. The model starts from the hybrid pulse power characterization (HPPC) test data at different state of charge (SoC) and temperature levels.
Electrified Powertrain System Webinar Series
This webinar will expalin design of electrified powertrains requires a rigorous development approach and advanced design techniques to efficiently capture the embedded system architecture and associated mandatory requirements, and to implement various safety-critical software components.
PyAnsys Based EV Simulations - Add on Module
PyAnsys Installation and Getting Started
PyAnsys based automation and development work.
Lithium Ion Cell - 18650/32650 Geometry
The Lithium Ion Cell geometry automation work.
Lithium Ion Cell - 18650 Battery Pack Simulations using PyAnsys/PyMechanical
Lithium Ion Cell - 18650 Battery Pack Simulations using PyAnsys/PyMechanical scripting work.
Lithium Ferro Phospahte (LFP) - 32650 Battery Pack Simulations using PyAnsys/PyMechanical
Lithium Ferro Phospahte (LFP) - 32650 Battery Pack Simulations using PyAnsys/PyMechanical scripting work.
Battery Simulations
Battery Pack and Module Thermal Management
Batteries are extremely sensitive to temperature. Thermal management is critical to reduce temperature variations and to avoid thermal runaway.
Ensure Battery Safety and Durability
Batteries can be exposed to a variety of situations that can compromise their safety. To ensure battery durability, Ansys offers solutions for industry standards including SAE J2464, UL 2580, IEC 62619, SAND 2017-6925 and NASA JSC 2073. Simulate and optimize housing designs and reinforcements to build the safest battery on the market.
Simulation for Battery Cell Production
Electrochemistry simulation supports from the manufacturing of the battery cell to predicting age and lifetime. Cell manufacturers are tasked with the challenging job of storing as much power as possible, while reducing size, weight and cost. Accurately simulating electrochemistry before the manufacturing process helps with materials property selection and electrode structure design.
An integrated solution for BMS Development
Battery management systems (BMS) play a critical role in today’s electric vehicles. Ansys offers an integrated platform for developing, testing & verifying these sophisticated systems — delivering significant time, cost & quality advantages for BMS development teams.
Battery EMI/EMC
High-frequency EMI noises can cause crosstalk between a high-voltage power circuit in a battery array and a low-voltage control circuit in a battery management system. Electromagnetic simulation can be used to predict electromagnetic interference (EMI) emissions and susceptibility early in the battery design process or be used to conduct root cause analysis for existing EMI challenges in a battery system. These predictions and analysis can help optimize the EMI filter design and reduce hardware testing costs for compatibility tests.
Blog on Battery Basics
Selecting the Right Battery for Your Application Part 1
The one thing to remember about battery selection is that there is no such thing as a perfect battery that works for every application.
Building Better Batteries
The global economy is rapidly transitioning to portable and storable electricity, which impacts every major technology sector, especially consumer electronics, clean energy and mobility/transportation.
Selecting the Right Battery For Your Application Part 2
In part 1 of this three-part blog series, we discussed the most important metrics for battery selection. One thing to remember about battery selection is that it is essentially about managing tradeoffs. You trade off one feature in order to gain in another — for example in order to gain power density, you may have to reduce energy density.
Selecting the Right Battery For Your Application Part 3
In part one of this three-part series, we discussed the most important metrics for battery selection. One thing to remember about battery selection is that it is essentially about managing tradeoffs. You trade off some battery metrics in order to gain in others — for example to gain power density, you may have to trade off energy density.
Time For Action
Industry Ready/Recognised Skilled Professional in EV Segment
The electric vehicle (EV) market is growing exponentially, presenting several requirements of skilled resources are in demand till 2040. These simulation based courses will be able to understand the concepts via simulation through verification and validation process. After completion of course with workshops, detailed examination with quiz will be conducted and accordingly, certificate will be awarded.