The variation of cage motor losses with skew

IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 1563-1570

  McClay, Catherine I ^a   Williamson, Stephen ^b  

^a Edison Mission Energy   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Finite elements; Induction motors; Iron losses; Skew

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; ELECTRIC LOSSES; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

HARMONIC TORQUES; IRON LOSSES; SKEWINGS;

SQUIRREL CAGE MOTORS;

EID: 0034318711     PISSN: 00939994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/28.887207     Document Type: Article

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