DESIGN OF ELECTRICAL MACHINES AIDED BY FIELD CALCULATION AND FACTORIAL EXPERIMENTS METHOD

Abstract

An approach for electrical machines design by using magnetic field computation coupled to factorial experiments is presented in this paper. Principles of factorial experiments are briefly reviewed and their application to design optimisation is explained. In this application experiments are replaced by magnetic field calculations. The procedure, which performs automatically all the numerical field calculations required, is described. The whole procedure is applied to a typical problem concerning permanent magnets synchronous motor with polar pieces. [Vol. 12, No. 1 (1997), Special Issue on International Computational Electromagnetics, pp 69-73]