Analysis and characterization of switched reluctance motors

This paper presents new approaches for static, dynamic, thermal and vibration analyses of switched reluctance motors (SRM). At first, it proposes a modified stator geometry to improve the torque profile. Dynamic performance study using general purpose softwares such as Maxwell SPICE and PSCAD is reported. Thermal characterization in SRM, with the knowledge of the path of air velocity vector inside air regions by performing computational fluid dynamics, is systematically documented. A three-dimensional vibration analysis viz., rotor dynamics, harmonic analysis and static vibration analysis, under different loading conditions in 3D FEA is reported.