Use of transverse-flux machines in a free-piston generator

IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1092-1100

  Arshad, Waqas M ^a,b   Thelin, Peter ^b   Bäckström, Thomas ^a   Sadarangani, Chandur ^b  

^a ABB CORPORATE RESEARCH   (Sweden)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FREE PISTON ENGINES; MAGNETIC FLUX; MAGNETIC LEAKAGE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

FREE PISTON GENERATOR; LINEAR MACHINES; TRANSVERSE FLUX MACHINES;

ELECTRIC MACHINERY;

EID: 3242885596     PISSN: 00939994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIA.2004.830791     Document Type: Article

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