Animation visualization of electric machine structure and its internal process considering the cognitive features of students

This paper proposes a series of animation models for representing the fundamental structures, the working principles and some internal processes of AC and DC machines. Some new 3D animation designs are presented for representing the main structures, but the internal process, such as the motion of the rotating fields and their fundamental and harmonics and so on, are modeled by using synthetically 2D and 3D animation and the finite element method (FEM). It has been shown that using animation models the students can more easily understand and remember the complex and abstract concepts.