Predicting the Steadystate Performance of a Switched Reluctance Machine

IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 1991, Pages 1087-1097

  Moallem, Mehdi ^a   Ong, Chee Mun ^b  

^a ISFAHAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC MOTORS, RELUCTANCE TYPE; ELECTRIC WAVEFORMS; MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES - FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

SRM DRIVE SIMULATION; STATOR PHASE WINDINGS; SWITCHED RELUCTANCE MOTOR; WAVEFORM SIMULATION;

ELECTRIC DRIVE;

EID: 0026259049     PISSN: 00939994     EISSN: 19399367     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/28.108459     Document Type: Article

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