Topology Optimization for the Development of Electric Engines

The problem proposed by the Tecumseh company consists in applying the Topology Optimization (TO) methodology to improve the performance of an electromagnetic device. For convenience, this study focuses on modeling and developing numerical tools to optimize the core topology of an Electromagnetic Actuator (EA). The strategy is based on a TO framework that considers the magneto-static problem that governs the EA. The developed codes are written in Python and use the open-source library FEniCS to solve the Partial Differential Equations (PDEs), via the Finite Element Method (FEM), and the Method of Moving Asymptotes (MMA) algorithm as the optimizer.