A comparison of nodal- and mesh-based magnetic equivalent circuit models

IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 388-396

  Derbas, Hamza W ^a,b   Williams, Joshua M ^c   Koenig, Andreas C ^a   Pekarek, Steven D ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FEV Inc USA   (United States)

^c CATERPILLAR INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Magnetic equivalent circuit (MEC); Permeance; Reluctance

Indexed keywords

ALGEBRAIC SYSTEM; ANALYSIS AND DESIGN; COMPUTATIONAL EFFORT; MAGNETIC EQUIVALENT CIRCUIT (MEC); MAGNETIC EQUIVALENT CIRCUITS; MAGNETIC SYSTEM; NEWTON-RAPHSON ALGORITHM; NONLINEAR OPERATION; OPERATING CONDITION; PERMEANCE; RELATIVE ACCURACY; RELUCTANCE;

COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; EQUIVALENT CIRCUITS; NEWTON-RAPHSON METHOD;

MAGNETISM;

EID: 66849101511     PISSN: 08858969     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TEC.2008.2002037     Document Type: Article

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