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6.6280 Electric Machines
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Graduate (Fall)
Not offered regularly; consult department
Prereq: 6.2200, 6.690, or permission of instructor
Units: 3-0-9
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Treatment of electromechanical transducers, rotating and linear electric machines. Lumped-parameter electromechanics. Power flow using Poynting's theorem, force estimation using the Maxwell stress tensor and Principle of virtual work. Development of analytical techniques for predicting device characteristics: energy conversion density, efficiency; and of system interaction characteristics: regulation, stability, controllability, and response. Use of electric machines in drive systems. Problems taken from current research.
J. L. Kirtley, Jr.