Multiple grade lamination wound core: A novel technique for transformer iron loss minimization using simulated annealing with restarts and an anisotropy model

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1082-1085

  Kefalas, Themistoklis D ^a   Georgilakis, Pavios S ^b   Riadas, Antonios G ^a   Souflaris, Athanassios T ^c   Paparigas, Dimitris G ^c  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^c Schneider Electric AE ^*  (Greece)

Author keywords

Finite element methods; Magnetic anisotropy; Magnetic cores; Magnetic losses; Optimization methods; Power transformers; Simulated annealing

Indexed keywords

GRADE STEEL; PERMEABILITY TENSOR; WOUND CORE TRANSFORMERS;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY; MAGNETIC CORES; MAGNETIC PERMEABILITY; MAGNETIZATION; POWER TRANSFORMERS; SIMULATED ANNEALING;

MAGNETIC LEAKAGE;

EID: 44049100900     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2007.916019     Document Type: Article

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