<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue-Light, Helvetica Neue Light, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1448518576941_4527"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1448518576941_4968">Good day</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1448518576941_4527"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1448518576941_4969">Is it possible that the time period and the time step could have an impact on the meshing over the moving band?</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1448518576941_4527"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1448518576941_4970">If the time steps per period are too large, than there can be a significant rotation that occurs.</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1448518576941_4527">Possibly resulting in a distorted mesh?</div><div></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1448518576941_4528"> </div><div class="signature" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1448518576941_4530"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1448518576941_4529">Kind Regards</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1448518576941_4531">Mikail</div><div style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1448518576941_4765"><br></div></div> <br><div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" style="display: block;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, Helvetica Neue Light, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div dir="ltr"><font size="2" face="Arial"> On Sunday, November 22, 2015 11:18 AM, Ruth Vazquez Sabariego <ruth.sabariego@esat.kuleuven.be> wrote:<br></font></div> <br><br> <div class="y_msg_container"><div id="yiv1804658446"><div>
<div class="yiv1804658446">The characteristic lengths of the limiting lines for the moving band on the stator and rotor side should be fine enough.</div>
<div class="yiv1804658446">For the time being there is no check at the beginning of the computation, that is in our TODO list.</div>
<div class="yiv1804658446">If you send us your files, we can have a look and see if the problem can be easily solve.</div>
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<div class="yiv1804658446">Best regards,</div>
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<div class="yiv1804658446yqt6272514106" id="yiv1804658446yqt19663"><div class="yiv1804658446">On 22 Nov 2015, at 04:06, Mikail Ansari <<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" class="yiv1804658446" ymailto="mailto:ansarimikail@yahoo.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:ansarimikail@yahoo.com">ansarimikail@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:</div>
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<div class="yiv1804658446" dir="ltr" id="yiv1804658446yui_3_16_0_1_1448025365326_2649">Making most parameter modifications seems fine, such as shaft, inner and outer rotor radii.<br clear="none" class="yiv1804658446">
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<div class="yiv1804658446" dir="ltr" id="yiv1804658446yui_3_16_0_1_1448025365326_2682">I seem to be getting a moving band error, number of elements not matching.</div>
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<div class="yiv1804658446" dir="ltr" id="yiv1804658446yui_3_16_0_1_1447836308549_6520">The issue appears to be in Time domain mode when I modify the rotor bar parameters.</div>
<div class="yiv1804658446" dir="ltr" id="yiv1804658446yui_3_16_0_1_1447836308549_6519">The h2, Rsl, and the coordinates Points dp+6, and Points dp+8 on the moving band, adjusting the characteristic lengths on both the Stator and Rotor.</div>
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<div class="yiv1804658446" dir="ltr" id="yiv1804658446yui_3_16_0_1_1447836308549_6512">It appears to run initially but it seems to have an error, a quarter way through the simulation.</div>
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<div class="yiv1804658446" dir="ltr" id="yiv1804658446yui_3_16_0_1_1447836308549_6512">I am not sure if there are, specific techniques to specifying the moving band characteristic lengths so that the meshing always matches? An air-gap dependent factor?</div>
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