Research on a tubular longitudinal flux PM linear generator used for free-piston energy converter

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 447-449

  Zheng, Ping ^a   Chen, Anyuan ^b   Thelin, Peter ^b   Arshad, Waqas M ^c   Sadarangani, Chandur ^b  

^a HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^c ABB CORPORATE RESEARCH   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Finite element method (FEM); Free piston energy converter (FPEC); Hybrid electric vehicle (HEV); Linear generator

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC VEHICLES; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MAGNETIC FLUX; MAGNETOELECTRIC EFFECTS; OPTIMIZATION; PERMANENT MAGNETS; POWER CONVERTERS; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES;

FREE PISTON ENERGY CONVERTER (FPEC); HYBRID ELECTRIC VEHICLE (HEV); LINEAR GENERATORS;

ELECTRIC GENERATORS;

EID: 33846187614     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2006.887525     Document Type: Article

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