Induction machine modeling approach based on 3-D magnetic equivalent circuit framework

IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 339-347

  Amrhein, Marco ^a   Krein, Philip T ^b  

^a PC Krause and Associates Inc   (United States)

^b University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

3 D magnetic equivalent circuits (MECs); Computer aided design (CAD) of electric machines; Induction machine design; Induction machines; Reluctance network; Reluctance network generation

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS; COMPUTATIONAL EFFORT; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN TOOLS; DESIGN TOOL; ELECTRIC MACHINES; FINITE-ELEMENT MODELS; INDUCTION MACHINE MODELING; INDUCTION MACHINES; LUMPED-PARAMETER; MAGNETIC EQUIVALENT CIRCUITS; MATRIX FORMULATION; NETWORK GENERATION; PERFORMANCE CAPABILITY; PERFORMANCE ESTIMATION; STANDARD MOTOR; TORQUE RIPPLES; TRACK DYNAMICS;

ASYNCHRONOUS MACHINERY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER NETWORKS; ELECTRIC GENERATORS; ELECTRIC MACHINERY; EQUIVALENT CIRCUITS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MESH GENERATION; POWER ELECTRONICS; REVERBERATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

MACHINE DESIGN;

EID: 77952936507     PISSN: 08858969     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TEC.2010.2046998     Document Type: Article

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