Development of a PM transverse flux motor with soft magnetic composite core

IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 426-434

  Guo, YouGuang ^a   Zhu, Jian Guo ^a   Watterson, Peter A ^a   Wu, Wei ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b GE GLOBAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Permanent magnet motor; Soft magnetic composite (SMC); Three dimensional (3 D) finite element analysis (3 D FEA); Transverse flux motor

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC MACHINERY TESTING; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MACHINE DESIGN; MAGNETIC FLUX; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PERMANENT MAGNETS; PHASE CONTROL; PHASE MEASUREMENT; STATORS;

PERMANENT MAGNET MOTOR; SOFT MAGNETIC COMPOSITE CORE; THREE PHASE MOTOR; THREE-DIMENSIONAL FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; TRANSVERSE FLUX MOTOR;

ELECTRIC MOTORS;

EID: 33744507663     PISSN: 08858969     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TEC.2005.860403     Document Type: Article

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