High-frequency copper losses in magnetic components with layered windings

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 45, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 3187-3199

  Dimitrakakis, Georgios S ^a   Tatakis, Emmanuel C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Coils; Computer aided analysis; Eddy currents; Finite element methods; High frequency transformers; Losses; Transformer windings

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL MODELING; CLASSIC MODELS; COILS; CONDUCTOR ARRANGEMENT; COPPER LOSS; EDGE EFFECT; FINITE-ELEMENT; FINITE-ELEMENT METHODS; GEOMETRICAL PARAMETERS; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; MAGNETIC COIL; MAGNETIC COMPONENTS; SOLID WIRES; TWO-DIMENSIONAL EFFECTS;

COMPUTER AIDED ANALYSIS; COPPER; EDDY CURRENTS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; HIGH FREQUENCY TRANSFORMERS; MAGNETIC DEVICES; POWER ELECTRONICS; WINDING;

TRANSFORMER WINDINGS;

EID: 68549126958     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2009.2018624     Document Type: Article

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