Optimization of Electric Machine Designs, Part I

Inmore and more competitive markets and challenging application areas, it is of primary importance to reduce as much as possible the time-to-market of new and innovative products. As expected, electrical machines follow this nonwritten rule, since they are the most used electromechanical components in all manufacturing sectors. As the electric machine is the backbone of any electric drive, maximizing their performance takes top priority. Advances and trends in mathematical modeling and computer simulation, together with the availability of sophisticated optimization techniques, have opened the way to a new approach for electrical machine design.