ANIMATION OF ELECTRIC MACHINES:

Axial views, characteristics, space vectors, magnetic fields

1. Schematic diagram of a dc machine
2. Schematic diagram of a brushless dc motor
3. Position control of a dc motor
4. Schematic diagram of a round-rotor induction motor
5. Structure of a squirrel-cage induction machine
6. Principle of operation of squirrel-cage induction motor and generator
7. Axial view of a squirrel-cage induction machine
8. Developed view of a squirrel-cage induction machine
9. Sinusoidally distributed windings and fields in a 3-phase ac machine
10. Magnetic field distributions due to single-phase excitation
11. Air gap flux due to 3-phase excitation
12. MMF distributions in a 3-phase ac machine
13. Motion of space vectors in a 3-phase excitation system
14. Space vector decomposition in the synchronous dq frame
15. Sinusoidal mmf distributions and corresponding space vector representations
16. Space vectors for a balanced 3-phase signal
17. Sinusoidally distributed windings
18. Animated phasors of an induction motor (Torque-speed curve)
19. Volt per Herz speed control of an induction motor
20. Space vector motion in an induction motor under step loads
21. Schematic diagram of a 4-phase 8/6 switched-reluctance motor
22. Elementary 3-phase round rotor synchronous generator
23. Elementary 3-phase salient-pole alternator and generated voltages
24. Synchronization of 3-phase ac systems
25. Transient stability of a synchronous machine described by voltage space vectors
26. Animated phasor diagrams of a synchronous generator (Compounding curve)
27. Animated phasor diagrams of a synchronous motor (V curve)
28. Animated phasor diagrams of a synchronous motor (Power-angle curve)
29. Three-phase inverter
30. Direct torque control of ac machines
31. Still images
32. The mathematics of electric machine modeling

 

 

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