Professor CHRISTOPHER GERADA's Outputs (39)

Optimized Sizing of IPM Machines for Automotive Traction Application (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Valente, G., Gerada, D., Degano, M., Gerada, C., Foulsham, J., & Beeby, D. (2019, May). Optimized Sizing of IPM Machines for Automotive Traction Application. Presented at 2019 IEEE International Electric Machines & Drives Conference (IEMDC), San Diego, CA, USA

This paper presents the implementation of an electrical machine design tool including its overall architecture. The tool is flexible and can be employed for the sizing of any permanent magnet synchronous machine. The case study considered in this wor... Read More about Optimized Sizing of IPM Machines for Automotive Traction Application.

Simplified Analytical Machine Sizing for Surface Mounted Permanent Magnet Machines (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Xie, P., Ramanathan, R., Vakil, G., & Gerada, C. (2019, May). Simplified Analytical Machine Sizing for Surface Mounted Permanent Magnet Machines. Presented at IEMDC 2019 - International Electric Machines & Drives Conference, San Diego, California, USA

This paper proposes a simple analytical machine sizing process for a three-phase surface mounted permanent magnet synchronous machines appropriate for both system level analysis and preliminary machine design. For system-level analysis, the proposed... Read More about Simplified Analytical Machine Sizing for Surface Mounted Permanent Magnet Machines.

Air-Cooling of a Hollow High-Speed Permanent Magnet Rotor (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Connor, P. H., La Rocca, A., Xu, Z., Degano, M., Eastwick, C. N., Pickering, S. J., & Gerada, C. (2019, May). Air-Cooling of a Hollow High-Speed Permanent Magnet Rotor. Presented at 2019 IEEE International Electric Machines and Drives Conference, IEMDC 2019, San Diego, USA

This paper presents a computational fluid dynamics conjugate heat transfer analysis of internal and external cooling paths for a hollow high-speed permanent magnet rotor. Extracting magnet losses from high-speed permanent magnet rotors is challenging... Read More about Air-Cooling of a Hollow High-Speed Permanent Magnet Rotor.

Sizing, design, and modelling of aerospace electric drive system with long feeder cables (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Xie, P., Vakil, G., & Gerarda, C. (2019, May). Sizing, design, and modelling of aerospace electric drive system with long feeder cables. Presented at IEMDC 2019 - International Electric Machines & Drives Conference, San Diego, California, USA

The aviation industry is tending towards more electric aircraft, replacing conventionally pneumatic, hydraulic, and mechanical systems with electrical solutions. The electrification of actuators is motivated by increased efficiency, reduced maintenan... Read More about Sizing, design, and modelling of aerospace electric drive system with long feeder cables.

A Novel Concept of Ribless Synchronous Reluctance Motor for Enhanced Torque Capability (2019)
Journal Article
Bao, Y., Degano, M., Wang, S., Chuan, L., Xu, Z., Zhang, H., & Gerada, C. (2020). A Novel Concept of Ribless Synchronous Reluctance Motor for Enhanced Torque Capability. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, 67(4), 2553-2563. https://doi.org/10.1109/tie.2019.2914616

The rotor structure of synchronous reluctance machines (SynRel) is conventionally retained mechanically by iron ribs. In this paper a novel structure for high speed synchronous reluctance rotor is presented. The novelty of this work is the proof of a... Read More about A Novel Concept of Ribless Synchronous Reluctance Motor for Enhanced Torque Capability.

Control Strategy for Five-Phase Dual-Stator Winding Induction Starter/Generator System (2019)
Journal Article
Liu, H., Bu, F., Huang, W., Liu, L., Hu, Y., Degano, M., & Gerada, C. (2020). Control Strategy for Five-Phase Dual-Stator Winding Induction Starter/Generator System. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, 67(4), 2607-2617. https://doi.org/10.1109/TIE.2019.2912767

This paper presents an integrated control strategy for a starter/generator (S/G) system based on five-phase dual-stator winding induction machine (FPDWIM). The FPDWIM has a cage-type rotor and two sets of stator windings. One is a five-phase control... Read More about Control Strategy for Five-Phase Dual-Stator Winding Induction Starter/Generator System.

Coupling calculation and analysis of three-dimensional temperature and fluid field for high-power high-speed permanent magnet machine (2019)
Journal Article
Wang, T., Zhang, Y., Wen, F., Gerada, C., Liu, G., Rui, D., & Zerun, W. (2019). Coupling calculation and analysis of three-dimensional temperature and fluid field for high-power high-speed permanent magnet machine. IET Electric Power Applications, 13(6), 812-818. https://doi.org/10.1049/iet-epa.2018.5725

© The Institution of Engineering and Technology 2019. In order to accurately estimate the temperature rise for high-power high-speed permanent magnet machines (HSPMMs), a novel temperature calculation method considering the non-linear variation of ma... Read More about Coupling calculation and analysis of three-dimensional temperature and fluid field for high-power high-speed permanent magnet machine.

A Nonlinear Extended State Observer for Rotor Position and Speed Estimation for Sensorless IPMSM Drives (2019)
Journal Article
Xu, Z. J., Zhang, T., Bao, Y., Zhang, H., & Gerada, C. (2020). A Nonlinear Extended State Observer for Rotor Position and Speed Estimation for Sensorless IPMSM Drives. IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, 35(1), 733-743. https://doi.org/10.1109/tpel.2019.2914119

© 1986-2012 IEEE. Sensorless machine drives in vehicle traction frequently experience rapidly-changing load disturbance and demand fast speed dynamics. Without gain-scheduling or compensation, conventional quadrature phase-locked-loop (Q-PLL) is unab... Read More about A Nonlinear Extended State Observer for Rotor Position and Speed Estimation for Sensorless IPMSM Drives.

An accurate wide-speed range control method of IPMSM considering resistive voltage drop and magnetic saturation (2019)
Journal Article
Wang, S., Kang, J., Degano, M., Galassini, A., & Gerada, C. (2020). An accurate wide-speed range control method of IPMSM considering resistive voltage drop and magnetic saturation. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, 67(4), 2630-2641. https://doi.org/10.1109/TIE.2019.2912766

This paper deals with the high accurate current set-points solution for Interior Permanent-Magnet Synchronous Motors (IPMSM) in wide-speed range applications. Considering voltage and current constraints, the operating regions can be divided into Maxi... Read More about An accurate wide-speed range control method of IPMSM considering resistive voltage drop and magnetic saturation.

Eddy Current Loss Control in High Speed PM Starter-Generator (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Zhang, X., Zhang, H., Gerada, C., Gerada, D., Li, J., Xu, Z., & Liu, C. (2019, April). Eddy Current Loss Control in High Speed PM Starter-Generator. Presented at 2019 IEEE Workshop on Electrical Machines Design, Control and Diagnosis (WEMDCD), Athens, Greece

This paper highlights the advancement in high speed generation applications along with describing the state of the art in the machine design technologies enabling such an application uptake. Via the investigating on a 250kW high speed PM starter-gene... Read More about Eddy Current Loss Control in High Speed PM Starter-Generator.

Flux-Density Harmonics Analysis of Switched-Flux Permanent Magnet Machines (2019)
Journal Article
Zeng, Z., Shen, Y., Lu, Q., Gerada, D., Wu, B., Huang, X., & Gerada, C. (2019). Flux-Density Harmonics Analysis of Switched-Flux Permanent Magnet Machines. IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, 55(6), 1-7. https://doi.org/10.1109/tmag.2019.2908250

By developing a simple permeance-magnetomotive force (MMF) model of switched-flux permanent magnet (SFPM) machines, the air-gap flux density produced by both PMs and armature current can be derived, in which harmonics with the same order and rotation... Read More about Flux-Density Harmonics Analysis of Switched-Flux Permanent Magnet Machines.

Effective Thermal Conductivity Calculation and Measurement of Litz Wire based on the Porous Metal Materials Structure (2019)
Journal Article
Liu, X., Gerada, D., Xu, Z., Corfield, M., Gerada, C., & Yu, H. (2020). Effective Thermal Conductivity Calculation and Measurement of Litz Wire based on the Porous Metal Materials Structure. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, 67(4), 2667-2677. https://doi.org/10.1109/tie.2019.2910031

Litz wires are employed in high-frequency electrical machines due to their advantages of reducing the ac losses, including minimizing the skin effect and the proximity effect. In order to improve the reliability of such machines, and enable accurate... Read More about Effective Thermal Conductivity Calculation and Measurement of Litz Wire based on the Porous Metal Materials Structure.

Numerical investigations of convective phenomena of oil impingement on end-windings (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Connor, P. H., La Rocca, A., Xu, Z., Eastwick, C. N., Pickering, S. J., & Gerada, C. (2018, April). Numerical investigations of convective phenomena of oil impingement on end-windings. Presented at 9th International Conference on Power Electronics, Machines and Drives (PEMD 2018), Liverpool

A novel experimental rig for analysing intensive liquid cooling of highly power-dense electrical machine components has been developed. Coupled fluid flow and heat transfer have been modelled, using computational fluid dynamics (CFD), to inform the d... Read More about Numerical investigations of convective phenomena of oil impingement on end-windings.

Novel Motor-Shaped Rotational Inductor for Motor Drive Applications (2019)
Journal Article
Odhano, S., Khowja, M. R., Gerada, C., Vakil, G., Abebe, R., Odhano, S. A., Patel, C., & Wheeler, P. (2020). Novel Motor-Shaped Rotational Inductor for Motor Drive Applications. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, 67(3), 1844-1854. https://doi.org/10.1109/tie.2019.2907512

This paper presents a validation of the novel motor-shaped rotational inductor. To validate the concept, 12 slots 2 poles rotational inductor is tested at different supply frequencies and rotor speeds. Experimental results have shown that the iron lo... Read More about Novel Motor-Shaped Rotational Inductor for Motor Drive Applications.

Considerations on the Development of an Electric Drive for a Secondary Flight Control Electromechanical Actuator (2019)
Journal Article
Giangrande, P., Galassini, A., Papadopoulos, S., Al-Timimy, A., Calzo, G. L., Degano, M., Gerada, C., & Galea, M. (2019). Considerations on the Development of an Electric Drive for a Secondary Flight Control Electromechanical Actuator. IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, 55(4), 3544-3554. https://doi.org/10.1109/tia.2019.2907231

The more electric aircraft concept aims to improve the fuel consumption, the weight, and both the maintenance and operating costs of the aircraft, by promoting the use of electric power in actuation systems. According to this scenario, electromechani... Read More about Considerations on the Development of an Electric Drive for a Secondary Flight Control Electromechanical Actuator.

Fixed switching frequency predictive control of an asymmetric source dual inverter system with a floating bridge for multilevel operation (2019)
Journal Article
Chowdhury, S., Wheeler, P., Huang, Z., Rivera, M., & Gerada, C. (2019). Fixed switching frequency predictive control of an asymmetric source dual inverter system with a floating bridge for multilevel operation. IET Power Electronics, 12(3), 450-457. https://doi.org/10.1049/iet-pel.2018.5395

This study proposes a modified modulated model predictive control (MMPC) scheme to control an open-end winding induction motor drive using an asymmetric source dual inverter with one floating bridge. The control algorithm uses a modulation algorithm... Read More about Fixed switching frequency predictive control of an asymmetric source dual inverter system with a floating bridge for multilevel operation.

High Torque Density Torque Motor With Hybrid Magnetization Pole Arrays for Jet Pipe Servo Valve (2019)
Journal Article
Zhang, Q., Yan, L., Duan, Z., Jiao, Z., Gerada, C., & Chen, I.-M. (2020). High Torque Density Torque Motor With Hybrid Magnetization Pole Arrays for Jet Pipe Servo Valve. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, 67(3), 2133-2142. https://doi.org/10.1109/tie.2019.2903761

Torque motor is one key component that directly influences the dynamic performance of jet pipe servo valve in aircraft. In this paper, a novel torque motor with hybrid-magnetization pole arrays is proposed. By changing the magnetization patterns of p... Read More about High Torque Density Torque Motor With Hybrid Magnetization Pole Arrays for Jet Pipe Servo Valve.

Fluid flow and heat transfer analysis of TEFC machine end regions using more realistic end-winding geometry (2019)
Journal Article
La Rocca, S., Pickering, S. J., Eastwick, C. N., Gerada, C., & Rönnberg, K. (2019). Fluid flow and heat transfer analysis of TEFC machine end regions using more realistic end-winding geometry. Journal of Engineering, 2019(17), 3831-3835. https://doi.org/10.1049/joe.2018.8026

Here, a typical small low-voltage totally enclosed fan-cooled (TEFC) motor (output power ∼10 kW) has been studied using computational fluid dynamics. The complexity of the end-winding geometries, often consisting of several insulated copper strands b... Read More about Fluid flow and heat transfer analysis of TEFC machine end regions using more realistic end-winding geometry.

The Influence of Winding Location in Flux-Switching Permanent-Magnet Machines (2019)
Journal Article
Zhang, H., Hua, W., Hu, M., Gerada, D., & Gerada, C. (2019). The Influence of Winding Location in Flux-Switching Permanent-Magnet Machines. IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, 55(7), Article 8104205. https://doi.org/10.1109/tmag.2018.2886686

The main purpose of this paper is to investigate the influence of winding location on back electromotive force (EMF) and armature inductance in flux-switching permanent-magnet (FSPM) machines. To obtain an analytical solution, a double-stator-pitch m... Read More about The Influence of Winding Location in Flux-Switching Permanent-Magnet Machines.