...Simon Chauviere; Lamia Belguerras; Thierry Lubin; Smail Mezani Purpose The purpose of this paper is the design study and realisation of portable low-field open MRI system. Design/methodology/approach The design of the magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system is based on an optimization study...

...Gregory Bauw; Bertrand Cassoret; Olivier Ninet; Raphael Romary Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present a design method for induction machines including a three-phase damper winding for noise and vibrations reduction. Design/methodology/approach In the first part, the principle...

...Jiazhi Lei; Qingwu Gong; Jun Ye Purpose This paper aims to propose a simplified model of vanadium redox flow batteries (VRBs) for VRB energy storage system (ESS) design considering the operational characteristics of VRB, and a VRB ESS, considering the low terminal voltage of VRB, was presented...

...Prof. Oszkár Bíró, Prof. David A. Lowther and Prof. Piergiorgio Alotto; Steven Bielby; David A. Lowther Purpose – The conventional starting point for the design of an electrical machine (or any low-frequency electromagnetic device) is known as “sizing”. In this process, a simple magnetic circuit...

...Moslem Kouhi Jemsi; Behrooz Vahidi; Ramezan‐Ali Naghizadeh; Seyed Hossein Hosseinian Purpose The purpose of this paper is to propose a new approach for designing different parts of a high voltage bushing. It also aims to consider technical and economical criteria for the optimum solution...

...Carlos L. Antunes; Thomas Finocchiaro; André Pohlmann; Elena Cuenca Navalon; Marc Leßman; Ulrich Steinseifer; Kay Hameyer Purpose The purpose of this paper is to introduce the RWTH's total artificial heart, ReinHeart, focusing on the design of the unique drive system. Design/methodology...

...Marko D. Petković; Zoran H. Perić; Aleksandra Ž. Jovanović Purpose The purpose of this paper is to address the problem of polar quantization optimization. Particularly, the aim is to find the method for the optimal resolution‐constrained polar quantizer design. Design/methodology/approach...

...Ahmed Masmoudi; Piotr Biczel; Marcin Koniak Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present the simulation method of power plants and storage system capacity design. Design/methodology/approach Owing to solar irradiation, wind speed and water flow are highly and randomly changeable, time...

...Marissa Condon Purpose The purpose of this paper is to propose a methodology for forming compact reduced‐order macromodels of interconnect systems to enable real‐time design exploration and efficient manufacturing tolerance assessment. Design/methodology/approach A multi‐parameter moment...

...Sławomir Wiak; Andrzej Krawczyk; Ivo Doležel; Daniel Ioan; Wil Schilders; Gabriela Ciuprina; Nick van der Meijs; Wim Schoenmaker Purpose The main aim of this study is the modelling of the interaction of on‐chip components with their electromagnetic environment. Design/methodology/approach...

... design problem. Design/methodology/approach The GT is first briefly presented, then a possible recasting of MOOPs in terms of GT is described, where players from GT are associated with single objectives and strategies to the choice of degrees of freedom. A comparison with the Pareto approach...

...Sławomir Wiak; Andrzej Krawczyk; Ivo Doležel; Lovrenc Gašparin; Andrej Černigoj; Stojan Markič; Rastko Fišer Purpose The purpose of this study is to estimate the sensitivity of cogging torque in permanent magnet (PM) motor designs due to PM assembly tolerance and/or PM imperfections...

...‐uniform circular phased arrays, two criteria are considered to evaluate the design: the criteria of minimum main beam width and minimum side lobe level (SLL) during scanning. Design/methodology/approach The design of non‐uniform circular arrays is modeled as a multi‐objective optimization problem...

... the wanted features, the actuator has to be designed and its performance has to be quantified with good accuracy and reasonable computation time. The purpose of this paper is to present the design and the study of a permanent magnet linear actuator. Design/methodology/approach The first design...

...Ahmed Masmoudi; Z. Makni; M. Besbes; C. Marchand Purpose This paper aims to describe a CAD tool of permanent magnet electric machines. The software tool is operational from the first design phases and allows to study coupled phenomena. Design/methodology/approach The described design...

...S. Wiak; M. Dems; K. Komeza; S. Wiak; T. Stec; M. Kikosicki Purpose To investigate the use of amorphous iron as the stator core material to increase the efficiency of electric machines in serialised production. Design/methodology/approach In the design process of a new structure...

...Andrzej Demenko; Kay Hameyer; Lech Nowak; Krzysztof Zawirski; Kazimierz Zakrzewski; Bronisław Tomczuk; Andrzej Waindok Purpose To make easier and faster the designing of transformers using scale models. Design/methodology/approach The scale modeling in designing of transformers is included...

...I. Ammar; L. Gerbaud; Ph. R. Marin; F. Wurtz Purpose This paper deals with the collaborative design of electromagnetic devices over the internet network. The design is made by both mechanical and electrical engineers. So, the paper tries to show the importance but also constraints to size...

...V. Mester; F. Gillon; P. Brochet Purpose The paper highlights the process of electric vehicles optimal design as an inverse problem and presents the global constrained optimization as the best way to solve it. Design/methodology/approach The electric vehicle optimal design is carried out...

...S. Brisset; P. Brochet Purpose Analytical models are often used in the first steps of the design process. They are associated with optimisation methods to find a solution that fulfil the design specifications. In this paper, the analytical model of an electric motor is built and proposed...