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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