Slot harmonic impact on rotor losses in fractional-slot permanent-magnet machines

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 59, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 2557-2564

  Fornasiero, Emanuele ^a   Bianchi, Nicola ^a   Bolognani, Silverio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

AC machines; Brushless machines; Magnetic losses; Motor drives; Permanent magnet (PM) machines; Rotating machines; Variable speed drives

Indexed keywords

AC MACHINE; BRUSHLESS MACHINES; MAGNETIC LOSS; MOTOR DRIVES; PERMANENT-MAGNET (PM) MACHINES; ROTATING MACHINE;

AC GENERATOR MOTORS; ELECTRIC DRIVES; PERMANENT MAGNETS;

HARMONIC ANALYSIS;

EID: 84857419630     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2011.2168794     Document Type: Article

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