Identification of flux density harmonics and resulting iron losses in induction machines with nonsinusoidal supplies

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1562-1565

  Knight, Andrew M ^a   Zhan, Yang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Finite element analysis (FEA); Induction machines; Magnetic losses

Indexed keywords

FLUX DENSITY HARMONICS; IRON LOSSES;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; MAGNETIC LEAKAGE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

ASYNCHRONOUS MACHINERY;

EID: 44049095748     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2007.915946     Document Type: Article

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