Eddy-current loss in the rotor magnets of permanent-magnet brushless machines having a fractional number of slots per pole

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 41, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 2462-2469

  Ishak, Dahaman ^a,b   Zhu, Z Q ^a,b,c   Howe, David ^b,d,e,f  

^a IEEE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^c University of Sheffield ^*  (United Kingdom)

^d Electrical Machines and Drives Research Group

^e ROYAL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING   (United Kingdom)

^f Institution of Electrical Engineers   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Brushless machines; Eddy currents; Fractional slots per pole; Permanent magnet

Indexed keywords

BRUSHLESS MACHINES; FINITE-ELEMENT ANALYSIS; FRACTIONAL SLOTS/PER POLE; PERMANENT MAGNET;

ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; MAGNETISM; MAGNETOMETERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ROTORS; STATORS;

EDDY CURRENTS;

EID: 26944466144     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2005.854337     Document Type: Article

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