Flux-switching motors for automotive applications

IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1177-1184

  Pollock, Charles ^a,b   Pollock, Helen ^a   Barron, Richard ^c   Coles, Jeff R ^c   Moule, David ^c   Court, Andrew ^c   Sutton, Richard ^c  

^a Edison House   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c TRW Automotive   (United States)

Author keywords

Automotive; Flux switching (FS) motors; Low cost; Reluctance motors

Indexed keywords

AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MACHINE DESIGN;

AUTOMOTIVE APPLICATIONS; BRUSHLESS MOTOR; FLUX-SWITCHING MOTORS; POWERELECTRONIC CONTROLLER;

RELUCTANCE MOTORS;

EID: 33749409997     PISSN: 00939994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIA.2006.880842     Document Type: Article

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