Index of rotor losses in three-phase fractional-slot permanent magnet machines

The aim of here is to define an index of the rotor losses induced by the magnetomotive force (MMF) space harmonics in fractional-slot permanent magnet (PM) machines. Such an index facilitates a rapid discrimination of the various fractional-slot PM machines, based on the numbers of slots and poles. For the sake of generality, a simple model of the rotor losses is adopted to compute such an index of rotor losses. However, the index behaviour follows that of rotor losses computed by means of more complex models.

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