Computer Simulation and Operating Characteristics of a Three-Phase Brushless Synchronous Generator

This paper deals with numerical computation and simulation of the operating conditions of a three-phase brushless synchronous generator. A voltage driven nonlinear time-periodic finite element analysis is utilized to compute accurately the magnetic field distribution and the induced voltage and currents. The computation procedure is briefly addressed followed by the computed results and their comparison with experimental ones. The agreement between results is very good verifying the computational approach.