Design aspects of double-sided rotor radial flux air-cored permanent-magnet wind generator

IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 767-778

  Stegmann, Johannes Abraham ^a   Kamper, Maarten J ^a  

^a STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Air cored; design; double rotor; finite element (FE); permanent magnet (PM); radial flux; wind generator

Indexed keywords

AIR-CORED; DOUBLE ROTOR; FINITE ELEMENT (FE); RADIAL FLUX; WIND GENERATOR;

ELECTRIC UTILITIES; ELECTROMAGNETISM; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MAGNETIC DEVICES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; PERMANENT MAGNETS; ROTORS; WIND POWER;

DESIGN;

EID: 79952941776     PISSN: 00939994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIA.2010.2103541     Document Type: Article

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