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

Coffee 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

Coffee 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
City: 
Nottingham
Country: 
United Kingdom
Date: 
Wednesday, January 27th, 2016 - 9:00 am
Speaker: 

Niklaus Felderer

Registration: 

Linda Davis, Pulse Power & Measurement Ltd.
linda.davis@ppm.co.uk, +44 1793 784 389

Venue: 

University of Nottingham
Business School South
Juilee Campus
Nottingham NG8 1BB
United Kingdom

Flyer: 
PDF icon Workshop_Program.pdf

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— Bartlomiej Ufnalski, Warsaw University of Technology