ELECTROMAGNETIC ANALYSIS OF THE SKEWED IPM MOTOR USING MULTI-SLICED 2D FINITE ELEMENT METHOD

This research paper investigates the adoptability of the multi-sliced 2D finite element method (FEM) on the skewed interior permanent magnet (IPM) motor. Conventional IPM motors are without skewing, and analyzed by using the 2D FEM, however, skewed IPM motors require 3D FEM, thus huge computation time and memory are needed. The multi-sliced 2D FEM consumes less computational time compared to a traditional 3D FEM. Therefore, a multi-sliced 2D FEM is presented and adopted to analyze the skewed-stator IPM motor for the hybrid electric vehicle (HEV) application. To realize the computational accuracy of the multi-sliced 2D FEM, the back EMF of a conventional un-skewed IPM motor computed by a conventional 2D FEM is compared with the back EMF results of the multi-sliced 2D FEM. The electromagnetic characteristics, such as cogging torque, torque ripples, back EMF and electromagnetic torque of the skewed-stator IPM motor are computed using the multi-sliced 2D FEM, and results are discussed.