A review of the design issues and techniques for radial-flux brushless surface and internal rare-earth permanent-magnet motors

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 58, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 3741-3757

  Dorrell, David G ^a   Hsieh, Min Fu ^b   Popescu, Mircea ^c   Evans, Lyndon ^c   Staton, David A ^c   Grout, Vic ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c MOTOR DESIGN LTD   (United Kingdom)

^d GLYNDWR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Analysis; brushless permanent magnet (PM) motors; design; internal PM (IPM); torque

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS; ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES; BRUSHLESS PERMANENT MAGNET MOTOR; DC MACHINE; DESIGN ISSUES; DESIGN TECHNIQUE; FIELD-WEAKENING; INTERNAL PM (IPM); LEADING EDGE; PERMANENT MAGNET MOTOR; PERMANENT-MAGNET MACHINE; POLE NUMBERS; WINDING LAYOUT;

AC GENERATOR MOTORS; BRUSHLESS DC MOTORS; DESIGN;

PERMANENT MAGNETS;

EID: 80051712893     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2010.2089940     Document Type: Article

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