Abstract
The magnetic equivalent circuit (MEC) technique is a powerful analysis and design tool that combines relative accuracy with moderate computational effort. In this paper, a nodal-based MEC formulation and a mesh-based MEC formulation of a magnetic system are compared. The Newton-Raphson algorithm is used to solve the algebraic system, and to draw conclusions about the computational efficiency of the two formulations under linear and nonlinear operation. Although the two formulations exhibit similar performance under linear operating conditions, the performance of the mesh-based model is significantly better than that of the nodal-based model under nonlinear operation.
Keywords
equivalent circuits, machine theory, magnetic circuits, Newton-Raphson method
Date of this Version
January 2009
DOI
http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TEC.2008.2002037
Published in:
IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion 24,2 (2009) 388-96;
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