Title :
Adaptive mesh generation applied to switched reluctance motor design
Author :
Jack, A.G. ; Finch, J.W. ; Wright, J.W.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Newcastle upon Tyne Univ., UK
Abstract :
The design of switched reluctance motors (SRMs) requires the calculation of the phase flux linkage of the motor, as a function of rotor position and exciting current. A new method of establishing this variation using finite-element techniques is described. The mesh preparation, boundary source and material data, equation solution, and extraction of machine data from the solution are all done completely automatically. The designer is thus removed from the numerical analysis chores that formerly so much reduced effectiveness. The method has also been applied to flux linkage against position determination in permanent magnet machines.<>
Keywords :
finite element analysis; reluctance motors; adaptive mesh generation; finite-element techniques; phase flux linkage; rotor position; switched reluctance motor design; Couplings; Data mining; Equations; Finite element methods; Magnetic materials; Mesh generation; Numerical analysis; Reluctance machines; Reluctance motors; Rotors;
Conference_Titel :
Industry Applications Society Annual Meeting, 1990., Conference Record of the 1990 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Seattle, WA, USA
Print_ISBN :
0-87942-553-9
DOI :
10.1109/IAS.1990.152191
