A semiempirical model to determine HF copper losses in magnetic components with nonlayered coils

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 2719-2728

  Dimitrakakis, Georgios S ^a   Tatakis, Emmanuel C ^a   Rikos, Evangelos J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b Centre for Renewable Energy Sources   (Greece)

Author keywords

Coils; HF transformers; Loss measurement; Skin effect; Transformer windings

Indexed keywords

COPPER; ELECTRIC CONDUCTORS; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; MAGNETIC DEVICES; POWER ELECTRONICS; POWER TRANSFORMERS; SKIN; WINDING;

ANALYTICAL METHODS; COILS; COPPER LOSS; ELECTRONICS APPLICATIONS; EMPIRICAL MODELS; ERROR APPROXIMATIONS; EXPERIMENTAL MEASUREMENTS; FINITE-ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HF TRANSFORMERS; LOSS MEASUREMENT; MAGNETIC COMPONENTS; NUMERICAL RESULTS; RESISTANCE CALCULATIONS; SEMI-EMPIRICAL MODELS; SKIN EFFECT; STATISTICAL TREATMENTS;

TRANSFORMER WINDINGS;

EID: 59749095246     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2008.2004872     Document Type: Article

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