In this work, optimisation of a brushless direct current (BLDC) generator design was undertaken by carrying out an electromagnetic and computational fluid dynamic study. The studies were carried out for different loadingoverloading conditions and angular speeds, keeping in consideration the required electrical and thermal parameters, firstly for the initial design and then for optimised designs...

H∞ controller for active magnetic bearings (AMBs) with flexible rotor system was designed in this paper. The motion equations of AMBs and flexible rotor system are built based on finite element methods (FEM). Weighting function matrices of H∞ controller for AMBs are studied for both the sensitivity and the complementary sensitivity of H∞ control theory. The simulation shows that the H∞ control ...

In this article, turbulent flow heat transfer in the air gap between rotor and stator of a generator under nonhomogeneous heat flux is studied experimentally. The rotor consists of four symmetrical triangular grooves. The stator surface is smooth and does not include any grooves. The relative heat flux between the rotor and the stator is 1 to 3. Temperature and heat flux are measured locally at...

Abstract Within the DLR project VicToria an aerodynamic and aero-acoustic optimization of helicopter rotor blades is performed. During optimization, three independent flight conditions are considered: hover, cruise descent flight. The first two drive power requirements rotor, while loudest condition for current generations. To down required emitted noise, a multi-objective design approach coupl...

There is unbalanced magnetic pull between the rotor and stator of the cage induction motor when the rotor is not concentric with the stator. These forces depend on the position and motion of the center point of the rotor. In this paper, the linearity of the forces in proportion to the rotor eccentricity is studied numerically using time-stepping finite element analysis. The results show that us...

In this study, horizontally periodic large eddy simulations (LES) are utilized to study turbulent atmospheric boundary-layer flow over wind turbines in the far-downstream portion of a large wind farm where the wakes have merged and the flow is fully developed. In an attempt to increase power generation by enhancing the mean kinetic energy (MKE) entrainment to the wind turbines, hypothetical syn...

We prove a shape theorem for rotor-router aggregation on the comb, for a specific initial rotor configuration and clockwise rotor sequence for all vertices. Furthermore, as an application of rotor-router walks, we describe the harmonic measure of the rotor-router aggregate and related shapes, which is useful in the study of other growth models on the comb. We also identify the shape for which t...

The aim of this paper is to study the application of model predictive controller for improving stability of rotor and rotor vibration. Rotor vibrations in electrical machines are dampen out by model predictive control algorithm. The controlled system is the one dimensional Jeffcott-rotor. Model predictive control algorithm was designed, and the simulation results were obtained by Mat lab softwa...

This paper presents a novel method for the rotor resistance identification of an indirect rotor field oriented (IRFO) control system of a saturated induction motor. A saturated induction motor is an induction motor with a variable (saturable) mutual inductance. Saturation of the mutual inductance appears in operating conditions with variable rotor flux levels in the IRFO control system of an in...