Calculation of the performances of a synchronous machine with salient solid poles using the boundary integral method

The boundary integral method is very attractive by its simplicity of use, mainly when we are only interested to the solution on the domain boundary. The authors apply this method to a bipolar reluctance machine which has solid rotor poles, whose synchronous behaviour has been studied for a long time in their laboratory. The asynchronous starting is computed by the boundary integral method and compared with an experimental study.