Design, prototyping, and analysis of a low cost axial-flux coreless permanent-magnet generator

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 75-80

  Hosseini, Seyed Mohsen ^a   Agha Mirsalim, Mojtaba ^a,b   Mirzaei, Mehran ^a  

^a AMIRKABIR UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^b ST MARY'S UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Axial flux; Coreless; Design; Generator; Low cost; Nonferromagnetic holders; Permanent magnet; Prototype; Stator core

Indexed keywords

COST EFFECTIVENESS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; NEODYMIUM COMPOUNDS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PERMANENT MAGNETS; SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING;

AXIA FLUX; MAGNET GENERATORS; PERMANENTMAGNET GENERATORS;

ELECTRIC GENERATORS;

EID: 37249079683     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2007.909563     Document Type: Article

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