Segmentation of magnets to reduce losses in permanent-magnet synchronous machines

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 44, Issue 11 PART 2, 2008, Pages 4409-4412

  Sergeant, Peter ^a,b   Van Den Bossche, Alex ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE GHENT   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Finite element analysis; Inverse problems; Losses; Permanent magnet machines

Indexed keywords

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; INVERSE PROBLEMS; LOSSES; PULSE WIDTH MODULATION; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); SYNCHRONOUS MACHINERY; VOLTAGE CONTROL;

CIRCUMFERENTIAL DIRECTION; PERMANENT MAGNET SYNCHRONOUS MACHINES; PERMANENT-MAGNET MACHINE; SINUSOIDAL WAVEFORMS; SQUARE WAVEFORM; TIME HARMONIC; VOLTAGE PULSE; VOLTAGE WAVEFORMS;

PERMANENT MAGNETS;

EID: 72149125724     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2008.2001347     Document Type: Article

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