2D-FEA Based Design Study of Salient Rotor Three-Phase Permanent Magnet Flux Switching Machine with Concentrated Winding

Abstract

This paper presents a new structure of permanent magnet flux switching machine (PMFSM) with multiple different sizes of rotor pole width. A robust single piece salient rotor is used to modulate and switch the flux linkage polarity in the armature winding and become the fundamental mechanism of these types of machines. The methodology of two-dimensional (2-D) finite element analysis (FEA) is used to evaluate the electromagnetic performance of coil test including flux line distributions, three phase flux linkage, cogging torque as well as induced emf. The resulting performances are analysed based on the variety of rotor pole width to meet the requirement of direct drive propulsion of Electric Vehicles (EVs).