Reducing the cogging torque in brushless DC motors by using conformal mappings

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 40, Issue 2 I, 2004, Pages 451-455

  Marković, Miroslav ^a   Jufer, Marcel ^a   Perriard, Yves ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Brushless DC motors; Magnetic fields; Permanent magnet motors; Torque

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFORMAL MAPPING; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MAGNETIZATION; MAGNETOELECTRIC EFFECTS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; PERMANENT MAGNETS; STATORS; TORQUE;

BRUSHLESS DC MOTORS; PERMANENT-MAGNET MOTORS;

DC MOTORS;

EID: 2342582889     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2004.824111     Document Type: Article

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