Characteristics of an electrodynamic wheel using a 2-D steady-state model

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 43, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 3395-3405

  Bird, Jonathan ^b   Lipo, Thomas A ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Eddy currents; Electromagnetic analysis; Finite element methods; Halbach array; Maglev

Indexed keywords

ELECTRODYNAMICS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PERMANENT MAGNETS; ROTATION; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

ELECTRODYNAMIC WHEELS; MECHANICAL ROTATION; PROPULSION FORCES;

WHEELS;

EID: 34547465113     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2007.900572     Document Type: Article

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