PLECS Workshop

​Advanced Modeling and Simulation of Power Electronic Systems

08:30

Registration

09:00

Introduction to PLECS

  • General use of PLECS Blockset and PLECS Standalone

  • Instantaneous switching

  • Variable and fixed step operation

Exercise: Modeling a switched-mode power supply

10:00

Break

10:30

Solver Settings

  • Definition of stiff and non-stiff systems

  • Explicit and non-explicit solvers

  • Stability domain

  • Accuracy considerations, step size control

  • Proper handling of discontinuities, zero-crossing detection

Exercise: Solver accuracy and settings

12:00

Lunch

13:00

Introduction to Thermal, Mechanical & Magnetic Modeling & Simulation

  • Switching & conduction loss descriptions

  • Combined electrical-thermal simulation

  • Permeance Capacitance Analogy Model

Exercise: Thermal modelling of a buck converter

14:30

Break

15:00

Overview of PLECS Tools

  • AC Sweep and Impulse Response Analysis Tools

  • Steady State Analysis Tool

  • Implementing custom components

  • RT Box demonstration

Exercise: Creating a custom PV string component

16:00

End of Day

Ort: 
Valparaíso
Land: 
Chile
Datum: 
Donnerstag, 30. November 2017, 8:30 Uhr
Referent: 

Niklaus Felderer

Anmeldung: 

Roman Troesch
info@plexim.com, +41 44 533 51 00

Tagungsort: 

Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María
Room No. B 221
Av. España 1680
Valparaíso
Chile