Application of geometric programming to transformer design

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 41, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 4261-4269

  Jabr, Rabih A ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (Lebanon)

^b NOTRE DAME UNIVERSITY   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

Losses; Magnetic circuits; Optimization; Power transformers

Indexed keywords

GEOMETRIC PROGRAMMING (GP); TRANSFORMER RATINGS;

CONSTRAINT THEORY; MAGNETIC CIRCUITS; OPTIMIZATION; VOLTAGE CONTROL;

ELECTRIC TRANSFORMERS;

EID: 28644450488     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2005.856921     Document Type: Article

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