Optimizing the AC resistance of multilayer transformer windings with arbitrary current waveforms

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 369-376

  Hurley, William Gerard ^a,b   Gath, Eugene ^c   Breslin, John G ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRIC LOSSES; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; ELECTRIC WAVEFORMS; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; FREQUENCIES; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; MAGNETIC CIRCUITS; OPTIMIZATION; SWITCHING CIRCUITS;

ALTERNATING CURRENT RESISTANCE; HARMONIC FREQUENCIES; NONSINUSOIDAL CURRENT WAVEFORMS;

TRANSFORMER WINDINGS;

EID: 0033743488     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/63.838110     Document Type: Article

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