Abstract
The cage losses in induction machines due to spatial or time harmonics in the air-gap field are a crucial parameter for a precise estimation of the machine efficiency. Using finite element, the common approach to consider the overall cage losses, by performing complete time-domain analyses. Alternatively, a rough estimation is achieved introducing equivalent parameters in the circuital model. In this article, a methodology for cage losses computation due to air-gap spatial field harmonics is described. The proposed finite element procedure is faster than the time-domain analysis since it is based on magneto-static and linear time-harmonic simulations to carefully consider the iron saturation and compute the induced currents in a specific working point. In the article, a detailed procedure description and comparison with respect to the time-domain approach is reported.
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