3-D Magnetic equivalent circuit framework for modeling electromechanical devices

IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 397-405

  Amrhein, Marco ^a,b   Krein, Philip T ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b PC Krause and Associates Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

3 D magnetic equivalent circuits (MECs); Computer aided design (CAD); Design of electromechanical devices; Maxwell stress tensor (MST); Modeling of electromechanical devices; Reluctance network; Reluctance network generation

Indexed keywords

3-D MAGNETIC EQUIVALENT CIRCUITS (MECS); COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN (CAD); MAXWELL STRESS TENSOR (MST); MODELING OF ELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; RELUCTANCE NETWORK; RELUCTANCE NETWORK GENERATION;

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER CIRCUITS; COMPUTER NETWORKS; ELECTRODYNAMICS; ELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; EQUIVALENT CIRCUITS; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; REVERBERATION; TENSORS;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

EID: 66849091530     PISSN: 08858969     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TEC.2009.2016134     Document Type: Article

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