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Open-Circuit Field Prediction of Interior Permanent-Magnet Motor Using Hybrid Field Model Accounting for Saturation

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Peer-reviewed

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Article

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Abstract

A hybrid field model (HFM) based on the combination of magnetic equivalent circuit (MEC) and exact conformal mapping (ECM) is developed to calculate the open-circuit field of interior permanent-magnet (IPM) motor. In the proposed HFM, the IPM and iron saturations are transformed into equivalent current on the rotor surface and stator bore. ECM can calculate the air-gap field analytically using the equivalent current. Once the air-gap field is obtained, the MEC in the iron region can be solved and gives the new value of equivalent current, which forms a calculation loop. Hence, iterative solving process is required to determine the equivalent current and iron permeability in the rotor and stator. In order to verify the proposed model, both finite-element (FE) analysis and experiment are performed on IPM motors with V-type rotor and conventional “-” type rotor. Their results demonstrate the high accuracy of HFM.

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Keywords

Complex permeance, interior permanent magnet machine, magnetic equivalent circuit, saturation effect

Journal Title

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

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Journal ISSN

0018-9464
1941-0069

Volume Title

55

Publisher

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Sponsorship
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EP/R036799/1)