UCL Discovery
UCL home » Library Services » Electronic resources » UCL Discovery

Design and Hybrid Analytical Model for Interior Permanent Magnet Generator in an Electric Vehicle Auxiliary Power Unit Application

Shabanpour, Mostafa; Farrokh, Fariba; Faradonbeh, Vahid Zamani; Vahedi, Abolfazl; Asef, Pedram; (2025) Design and Hybrid Analytical Model for Interior Permanent Magnet Generator in an Electric Vehicle Auxiliary Power Unit Application. IET Electrical Systems in Transportation , 2025 (1) 10.1049/els2/6472337. Green open access

[thumbnail of IPM for EV Auxuliary Power Unit_ver2_PA.pdf]
Preview
PDF
IPM for EV Auxuliary Power Unit_ver2_PA.pdf - Accepted Version

Download (1MB) | Preview

Abstract

This study discusses a brushless permanent magnet (PM) generator. A high-efficiency interior PM (IPM) generator has been designed. It is suggested to use a three-phase, 12-/10-pole generator for the auxiliary power unit application. In this regard, to compute the components of the flux density distribution in the air gap of an IPM generator, a hybrid analytical model is employed. The unique aspects of this work include the development of a 2-dimensional (2-D) analytical method to determine the air gap magnetic flux density in the IPM generator, as well as the first-ever replacement of the stator slot with surface currents without the need for a repetitive loop. The rotor body bore receives 1-dimensional (1-D) analytical IPMs first transferred using the magnetic equivalent circuit (MEC) model. After that, the 2-D analysis is modified to take the stator slot’s impacts into account by adding virtual surface currents (VSCs). Using boundary conditions and the Laplace/Poisson equations, the radial and tangential flux components of the flux density distribution in the air gap IPM generator were computed. The suggested method and the acquired findings have been validated by the finite element method (FEM), analytical model, and experimental results, indicating that the IPM generator is a promising option for electric vehicle (EV) auxiliary power unit applications.

Type: Article
Title: Design and Hybrid Analytical Model for Interior Permanent Magnet Generator in an Electric Vehicle Auxiliary Power Unit Application
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1049/els2/6472337
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1049/els2/6472337
Language: English
Additional information: Copyright © 2025 Mostafa Shabanpour et al. IET Electrical Systems in Transportation. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Keywords: auxiliary power unit, electric vehicle, interior permanent magnet generator, permanent magnet brushless machine, virtual surface currents
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Mechanical Engineering
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10206698
Downloads since deposit
0Downloads
Download activity - last month
Download activity - last 12 months
Downloads by country - last 12 months

Archive Staff Only

View Item View Item