This important text/reference highlights a unique combination of numerical tools and strategies for handling the challenges of multiphysics simulation. As multiphysics simulation is a broad and rapidly growing field, requiring an array of technical skills in different intersecting disciplines, this book presents a specific focus on electromechanical systems as the target application.

Topics and features:

• Introduces the concept of design via simulation, along with the role of multiphysics simulation in today's engineering environment
• Discusses the importance of structural optimization techniques in the design and development of electromechanical systems
• Provides an overview of the physics commonly involved with electromechanical systems for applications such as electronics, magnetic components, RF components, actuators, and motors
• Reviews the governing equations for the simulation of related multiphysics problems
• Outlines relevant (topology and parametric size) optimization methods for electromechanical systems
• Describes in detail several multiphysics simulation and optimization example studies in both two and three dimensions, with sample numerical code