Induction
Heating
Simulation
Software

CENOS : IH is a simulation software for engineers working with induction heating applications. It enables the in-house design of efficient induction coils, heating recipes, impedance matching, and other induction heating-related tasks.

Applications

This simulation tool helps engineers perform induction heating tasks with confidence and in less time by replacing physical tests with computer simulations.

It is ideal for a variety of industries and applications – heat treatment of steel parts in automotive, aerospace, tooling, machinery, and medical industries; also for induction heating, welding, brazing, shrink fitting or processing of metals; for packaging industry; induction cooktop design, and other industries/applications.

CENOS Simulation Software for Engineers in 3 easy steps. Import CAD. Take your design.

Import CAD
Take your design

CENOS Simulation Software for Engineers in 3 easy steps. Set up parameters. Define physics and materials.

Set up parameters
Define physics and materials

CENOS Simulation Software for Engineers in 3 easy steps. Review results. Make decision.

Review results
Make decision

Accurate and rich simulation results in one click

CENOS : IH simulation software accuracy is explicitly validated by our customers – industry leaders.

Engineers benchmarked CENOS : IH simulations with real-life tests and practically proved the software value for induction coil design, heating recipe optimization, energy efficiency, and coil lifetime improvements.

CAD file support and custom post-processing

Use your favorite CAD software to save and load geometries in a neutral STEP or IGES format, and reload modified geometries while retaining all settings. Native integration with FreeCAD supports parametric studies for parameterized design.

Design and simulate induction coils, induction systems and create heating recipes for wide range of applications.

Complete PDF
reports in one click

Preparing presentations with simulation results is a necessary but everyday task. With the one-click PDF report feature, CENOS™ does it for you.

You can send the results immediately by e-mail to your colleagues or customers. Or you can print and send a hard copy – whichever suits you best, so you can get back to the practical work.

Live support
from experts

An integrated software chat with CENOS™ engineers provides you with immediate and detailed technical support. No fancy chatbots here!

Our product engineers take one day of paid vacation every week for customer support. This gives customers in-depth expertise and engineers first-hand feedback. A real win-win situation.

Pricing
& Plans

Prices are shown in U.S.$, exl. VAT if applicable

$6,000
/3 months

Single
project

from $12,000
/year

Frequent
use

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Our engineers
are right here in
your time zone

Our offices are located in Europe and North America. So you can be sure that immediate support is available in your time zone.

Next
steps

Set up a free 30-minute meeting with our engineer to discuss how CENOS simulation tools can optimize your process of engineering. Ask experts how to start or go for the free trial right away.

Full list of features

Geometry input and processing

  • CAD loading (.step, .iges formats)
  • Templates for commonly used coils and workpieces
  • One-click CAD re-loading preserving the whole case assignments, materials and settings
  • 2D and 3D geometry support
  • Various symmetry boundary conditions (axial symmetry, slice, flux-parallel & flux-normal symmetries, etc)
  • Native geometry loading from open-source CAD editor Salome
  • Parametric geometry modification (powered by the native integration with Salome)
  • Automatic air domain (enclosure) generation
  • Geometry scaling
  • Easy roles assignment to geometry objects (inductor, workpiece, flux concentrator, etc) with associated automatic physics pre-settings

Simulation types and controls

  • Steady state and transient calculation
  • Manual and adaptive (automatic) time step set up
  • “Fast” calculation mode – week coupling between electromagnetic and thermal calculations
  • “Accurate” calculation mode – strong coupling between electromagnetic and thermal calculations
  • Ability to re-start calculation from previous results
  • Advanced convergence controls
  • Multi-thread parallelisation controls

Physics settings and material properties

  • Fixed or time-dependent frequency setting
  • Full magnetic properties (B-H curve) calculation for ferromagnetic materials
  • Magnetic properties change over Curie temperature
  • Temperature dependent material properties
  • Anisotropic parameters and initial values defined by custom script
  • Power / current / voltage input, constant or time-dependent
  • Easy cooling definition, incl. spray-shower quenching
  • Temperature-dependent quenching properties
  • Various thermal boundary conditions: convection, radiation, heat flux, adiabatic, fixed temperature, thermal contact resistance
  • Easy motion set up – rotation, translation (scanning), also combined (rotation & translation) and multi-step definition
  • Time-saving “simple” motion option for geometries with regular cross-section – velocity field in equations
  • Spray-shower inductor lock for scanning hardening applications
  • Time-saving surface-impedance approach for high frequency (shallow skin-effect)
  • Stranded coil (Litz wire) definition

Library of materials, ability to create and save your custom material

Automatic meshing, interface for manual refinement of mesh parts

Results analysis

  • Temperature field
  • Magnetic field (incl. magnetic field lines visualization)
  • Current density
  • Joule heat
  • Metallurgical phases for quench hardening (ferrite, austenite, martensite, bainate)
  • Hardening profile (case) visualization and analysis
  • Hardness
  • Custom cuts (cross-sections) for all fields
  • Plots over time (probes) at custom points
  • Plots over line
  • Power / current / voltage over time
  • Induced power, coupling (power) efficiency
  • Inductance, Impedance, Resistance, Reactance
  • Convective Power loss
  • Radiative Power loss
  • Lorentz (electro-mechanic) force
  • Magnetic vector and electric scalar potential
  • Magnetic permeability
  • Real B value
  • Heat transfer coefficient

Additional results export options

  • Automatic pdf report generation
  • Data export in a spread sheet (csv format)
  • Automatic video (avi) generation

Add-ons for calculation effectivization

  • Simulation Manager – for automatic (batch) calculation, parametric studies and management of shared computation
  • License Server – for multi-user floating license management and off-line work in enterprise environments
  • Results Viewer – for interactive visualization and analysis of simulation results without calculation option