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CENOS : WCH is a simulation software for wireless charging. It helps engineers save a significant amount of resources on induction prototyping by replacing physical tests with computer simulations.

In this documentation page, we will learn what CENOS : WCH simulation software is capable of and how you can benefit from using the software in your product development processes.

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Understanding wireless charging (WCH) misalignment

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Exploring wireless charging simulations with CENOS

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CENOS operates on an annual subscription basis, with pricing determined by the features and number of users required. The starting price for an annual subscription is $6,000 USD.

For certain applications, we also provide the option of Project-based subscriptions, which are available for shorter durations of 3 months, catering to specific project needs.

If you’d like a customized quote or further details, feel free to reach out to our sales team.

CENOS primarily provides software that is designed for ease of use, empowering our customers to run their own simulations with confidence. Alongside the software, we offer high-level customer support to ensure a seamless experience.

For customers who require additional assistance, we also offer a Premium Support service. Through this service, our team can collaborate on simulation projects, including running simulations on your behalf to address workload challenges or assist with new designs.

No, the software doesn’t create designs for you. Instead, it acts as a robust simulation platform that helps you test and perfect your own ideas.

This means you can experiment with numerous design variations virtually, ensuring you arrive at the best design without the expense and delays of building physical prototypes.

CENOS simulations are highly accurate, with results closely matching real-world outcomes when the simulation setup mirrors the real-life setup. The precision of your results depends on how well the simulation parameters align with the physical conditions.

All CENOS users, including companies like Volkswagen, John Deere, and ThyssenKrupp, have validated the software’s accuracy through their own tests. You can explore some of these validation studies here.

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Full list of features

Geometry input and processing

  • CAD loading (.step, .iges formats)
  • Templates for commonly used transmitter-receiver coils systems
  • Automatic processing of coil geometries for power input definition
  • One-click CAD re-loading preserving the whole case assignments, materials and settings
  • PCB coils support
  • Various symmetry boundary conditions (slice, flux-parallel & flux-normal symmetries, etc)
  • Native geometry loading from open-source CAD editor FreeCAD
  • Parametric geometry modification (powered by the native integration with FreeCAD)
  • Automatic air domain (enclosure) generation
  • Geometry scaling
  • Easy roles assignment to geometry objects (transmitter coil, receiver coil, magnets, etc) with associated automatic physics pre-settings

Simulation types and controls

  • Coupling with electric circuit (integration with LTspice software)
  • Parametric study for various positions of transmitter and receiver coils against each over
  • Direct or iterative solver for electromagnetics
  • Ability to manually increase FEM elements order up to 4th, to ensure calculation accuracy when mesh size is limited with available RAM
  • For coil heating, steady state and transient calculation with manual and adaptive (automatic) time step set up
  • Ability to re-start transient calculation from previous results
  • Strong coupling option for electromagnetic and thermal calculation, for higher accuracy in case of rapid property changes
  • Multi-thread parallelisation controls

Physics settings and material properties

  • System simulation while transmitter and/or receiver coil is in motion, incl. complex, multi-step motion definition
  • Advanced stranded coils definition for varieties of design – circular and rectangular strands
  • PCB coil definition (surface current approach)
  • Open circuit, short circuit, load
  • Current/voltage input
  • Phase shift
  • Temperature dependent material properties

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)
  • Custom cuts (cross-sections) for all fields
  • Plots over time (probes) at custom points
  • Plots over line
  • Stray losses (hysteresis and eddy losses)
  • Mutual Inductance
  • Coupling efficiency
  • Q factor
  • Self-inductance
  • Resistance
  • Voltage
  • Current
  • Active power

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

Release Notes

v2.3 (January 21, 2025)

Features:

  • Reworked Result Viewer which enables even more intuitive and easy result evaluation

Improvements:

  • Improved PDF report source image generation
    Significantly improved automatic meshing algorithm quality and stability

Bugfixes:

  • Fixed connectivity issues which blocked some users from using the latest version
  • Fixed a bug which appeared when user manually tried to change any material property value
  • Fixed an issue with skin layer mesh elements causing unphysical Eddy loss field distribution
  • Fixed a bug which allowed calculation to be run if no applied voltage or current was defined
  • Fixed a bug which caused moving objects to jump around if Complex Motion was enabled

v2.2.3 (September 23, 2024)

Features:

  • Added support for Simulation Manager

Improvements:

  • Improved stability of remeshing, which affects cases with Motion

Bugfixes:

  • Fixed an issue where due to slow frontend response input values glitched and switched back to previous ones
  • Fixed a bug where after saving CENOS still thought the case was not saved
  • Fixed a bug where results did not show up if Other geometry role was used
  • Fixed a bug where mutual value polarizations changed unpredictably during calculation
  • Fixed a bug where CENOS allowed to share case with results, even if the results were not calculated
  • Fixed a bug which did not allow to STOP calculation if calculation process went wrong
  • Fixed a bug which in .csv file calculated 2x larger active power on coils than it was in reality

v2.2.2 (July 18, 2024)

Bugfixes:

  • Fixed a bug which did not allow sliced mesh to update if user recalculated the case while mesh cutting was enabled
  • Fixed an issue which caused magnetic field slice visualization to appear empty
  • Fixed issue which did not allow user to stop calculation
  • Fixed issue which did not allow user to stop mesh generation

v2.2.1 (June 13, 2024)

Improvements:

  • Improved stability of Template generation
  • Improved visual content distribution for PDF reports

Bugfixes:

  • Fixed license-related issue that blocked calculation in specific cases
  • Fixed a bug that did not allow to disable skin layers in mesh
  • Fixed an issue which caused PDF generation to fail if boundary conditions are not set up
  • Fixed a bug that did not allow to visualize results if Receiver coil was not present in case
  • Fixed a bug which allowed Trame to be open only once for a case in specific situations

v2.2 (May 14, 2024)

Features:

  • Rectangular and circular strand definition

Improvements:

  • Improved coil physics tab UI by adding explanatory images to the input parameters
  • Results of the previous run are no longer saved if case is recalculated, reducing case size
  • Improved accuracy in cases with voltage and/or defined load
  • Improved solver stability if Accurate algorithm was selected
  • Improved quality of automatic meshing algorithms

Bugfixes:

  • Fixed an issue where calculation was stopped if internet connection was lost
  • Fixed a bug which caused radiation calculation to provide inaccurate results

v2.1 (April 9, 2024)

Features:

  • Load definition on Receiver coil can now be defined directly in CENOS
  • Negative mutual inductance values can be calculated in results

Improvements:

  • 3D view PNG images can now be exported directly from 3D result view

Bugfixes:

  • Fixed an issue with mesh curving, which for some cases caused unphysical mesh spikes to appear in results

v2.0 (January 9, 2024)

Features:

  • Completely new result evaluation interface, seamlessly integrated within CENOS UI, which automates result preparation, presenting users with instantly accessible and intuitively displayed simulation insights, delivering unmatched efficiency when designing WCH systems.

Improvements:

  • Improved calculation stability

Bugfixes:

  • Result tab is no longer misleadingly available for new Template cases without calculated results
  • Fixed a bug which did not allow to run multiple cases in a batch

v1.6 (December 7, 2023)

Features:

  • Geometry, Physics and Mesh sections can now be opened during calculation
  • Iterative/direct solver and mesh element order control
  • Application filter

Improvements:

  • Mesh inspection now embedded in CENOS UI
  • Reworked navigation bar
  • Mesh size check

Bugfixes:

  • Now all coils by default are oriented in the same direction

Other:

  • Updated Terms & Conditions

v1.5 (October 23, 2023)

Features:

  • Current/voltage table input
  • Phase shift table input
  • Surface Currents approach for extremely thin coils
  • Advanced current density calculation algorithm

Improvements:

  • Stray losses are now separated by domains and shown in .csv file

Bugfixes:

  • Fixed a bug where domain names in Time Charts were displayed without assigned names from physics
  • Fixed an issue which caused cases with enabled conductor heating and complex motion to fail
  • Fixed a bug where values in the .csv file were duplicated if Steady state is selected
  • Fixed an issue where some mutual values were missing from the .csv file
  • Fixed a bug where cases fail if B(H) curve is enabled in physics
  • Fixed a bug which did not apply phase shift to coils if it was enabled

v1.4 (September 12, 2023)

Features:

  • Mesh inspection
  • Radiation losses
  • Single Tx assembly simulations

Improvements:

  • Greatly improved PDF report layout

Bugfixes:

  • Updated meshing algorithm, which can now mesh cases which failed previously

v1.3 (August 11, 2023)

Features:

  • Coil heating
  • N87 ferrite material
  • New Ferrite Surface and Coil Surface role to Geometry Roles

Improvements:

  • Hysteresis loss calculation is enabled by default for ferrites
  • Added tooltips for magnetization definition
  • Renamed Tx and Rx stranded coil sources for increased clarity
  • Ferrite is now automatically defined as electrically non-conductive
  • Added RMS indication for current and voltage inputs

v1.2 (June 27, 2023)

Features:

  • Integration with LTspice circuit simulator
  • Added 6 new ferrite materials (FS1000, N95, N96, N97, 3F3, 3F36)

Improvements:

  • Hysteresis loss calculation can now be enabled without full thermal analysis of the ferrite
  • Improved convergence if voltage excitation is used

Bugfixes:

  • Fixed a bug which blocked PDF report from being generated
  • Mutual data in .csv file is no longer being duplicated
  • Fixed a bug which crashed air domain generation if imported geometry contained smaller holes
  • Fixed a bug where, if adaptive time step is used, steps in the middle were not saved
  • Fixed an issue which caused unphysical ferrite heating in some cases

v1.1 (March 17, 2023)

Features:

  • Permanent magnets
  • Phase shift for transmitter coils
  • Added current, voltage and received power values in .csv file

Improvements:

  • Improved loss calculation (separate Eddy, Hysteresis and Total losses)
  • Improved automatic meshing algorithms

v1.0 (February 9, 2023)

Features:

  • Stranded coils
  • Ferrite and electrically conductive object heating
  • Geometry parameterization & parametric study
  • Easy motion definition
  • CENOS automatic & manual meshing
  • Magnetic field distribution
  • Loss calculation
  • Temperature field distribution
  • Q factor
  • Coupling coefficient
  • Mutual inductance
  • Resistance
  • Total losses

We are a software company on a mission to reshape the engineering process by providing engineers of all disciplines with truly accessible simulation tools for practical work.

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