Bulletin of the Polish Academy of Sciences: Technical Sciences

Abstract

This paper describes a numerically efficient method for determining the electrical parameters of axial field permanent magnet machine (AFPM). The presented method aims to accurately determine the back EMF waveform and self-inductance coefficients, while maintaining possibly low computational complexity, which is crucial in case of incorporation of the method in numerical optimization procedure of AFPM construction. The described algorithm is based on 2D FEM with several simplifications. The obtained results have been compared with full 3D FEA conducted with Ansys/Maxwell software, and confirmed by measurements. The result shows that presented method ensures satisfactory accuracy as well as computational time performance.