Estimating Rotational Iron Losses in an Induction Machine

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 3527-3533

  Hernandez Aramburo, Carlos A ^a   Green, Tim C ^a   Smith, Alexander C ^b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Induction machines; Induction motors; Iron losses; Rotational losses

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC INVERTERS; ELECTRIC LOADS; ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEMS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETIC FLUX; MAGNETIC LEAKAGE; MAGNETIZATION;

CORRECTION FACTOR; ROTATIONAL LOSSES;

INDUCTION MOTORS;

EID: 0347537840     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2003.819451     Document Type: Article

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