Design considerations of a direct drive brushless machine with concentrated windings

IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 1-8

  Wrobel, Rafal ^a   Mellor, Phil H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Brushless permanent magnet motor; External rotor; Genetic algorithm optimization

Indexed keywords

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; MACHINE WINDINGS; MAGNETIC CIRCUITS; MOTORS; OPTIMIZATION; PERMANENT MAGNETS;

BRUSHLESS PERMANENT MAGNET MOTOR; EXTERNAL ROTOR;

ELECTRIC MACHINERY;

EID: 40849124069     PISSN: 08858969     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TEC.2007.905073     Document Type: Article

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