PLECS Workshop

​Advanced Modeling and Simulation of Power Electronic Systems 

09:00

Registration

09:15

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

10:15

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

Exercise: Creating a custom PV string component

16:00

End of Day

 

This workshop on November 11 addresses to anyone who has not been using PLECS before.
There will be another workshop on November 12 in the same location for more advanced users.

 

City: 
Manchester
Country: 
United Kingdom
Date: 
Wednesday, November 11th, 2015 - 8:30 am
Speaker: 

Niklaus Felderer

Registration: 

Pulse Power & Measurement Ltd., Linda Davis
linda.davis@ppm.co.uk, +44 (0) 1793 786934

Venue: 

The University of Manchester
Sackville Street Building
Room D45a
Granby Row
M1 3BU, Manchester
United Kingdom

"The seminars combined with hands-on training provided by application engineers from Plexim are packed with insightful tips and techniques. Let me paraphrase newspaper editor Arthur Brisbane here. A Plexim workshop is worth a thousand page long manual. Be there!"
— Bartlomiej Ufnalski, Warsaw University of Technology