Design considerations for tubular flux-switching permanent magnet machines

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 44, Issue 11 PART 2, 2008, Pages 4026-4032

  Wang, Jiabin ^a   Wang, Weiya ^a   Atallah, Kais ^a   Howe, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Linear motors; Permanent magnet (PM) machines

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC MACHINERY; LINEAR MOTORS; SWITCHING; WINDING;

BRUSHLESS MACHINES; DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS; FLUX-SWITCHING PERMANENT MAGNET MACHINES; PERMANENT-MAGNET BRUSHLESS MACHINES; PERMANENT-MAGNET MACHINE; SALIENT FEATURES; STATOR WINDING CONFIGURATIONS; SWITCHED RELUCTANCE;

PERMANENT MAGNETS;

EID: 68549088389     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2008.2002773     Document Type: Article

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