Rotor eddy-current loss in permanent-magnet brushless AC machines

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 46, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 2701-2707

  Wang, Jiabin ^a   Atallah, K ^a   Chin, R ^b   Arshad, W M ^b   Lendenmann, H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b ABB CORPORATE RESEARCH   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Eddy current loss; Permanent magnet brushless machines

Indexed keywords

AC MACHINE; BRUSHLESS MACHINES; EDDY-CURRENT LOSS; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; FINITE-ELEMENT TECHNIQUES; SPACE HARMONICS;

DEMAGNETIZATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; PERMANENT MAGNETS;

EDDY CURRENTS;

EID: 77953855180     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2010.2042963     Document Type: Article

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