A novel modular permanent-magnet electric machine design

IECON Proceedings (Industrial Electronics Conference)

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 997-1002

  Stamenkovic, Igor ^a   Schofield, Nigel ^b   Milivojevic, Nikola ^a   Krishnamurthy, M ^a   Emadi, Ali ^a  

^a ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Air cored machines; Finite element analysis; Ironless machines; Machine design

Indexed keywords

3D-FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; AIR-CORED; COST-EFFECTIVE SOLUTIONS; ELECTRIC MACHINE DESIGN; ELECTRIC MACHINES; EXPERIMENTAL PROTOTYPE; FAULT-TOLERANT; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; MACHINE MODELS; MAGNETIC AND MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; MAGNETIC TOPOLOGIES; ROTOR STRUCTURES;

ELECTRIC DRIVES; ELECTRIC MACHINERY; INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONICS; MACHINE DESIGN; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; PERMANENT MAGNETS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TOPOLOGY;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 77951607433     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IECON.2009.5414690     Document Type: Conference Paper

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