Electrification is a trend that is on the rise within the aviation industry. Electrifying more systems in airplanes leads to increased efficiency and safety. GKN Aerospace intends to simulate electric machines as a preliminary step before conducting real-world experiments for the purpose of testing different machine designs. A simulation of an existing electric machine was made in this project seeking to replicate the characteristics of a synchronous machine installed in a test rig at GKN Aerospace. The simulation was made possible by measuring and estimating parameters from the machine. Furthermore, the report demonstrates the complexity of reverse-engineering an existing machine and how unexpected challenges made the development of the simulation model much harder than anticipated. The result confirms that a simulation model can be made by measuring and estimating the machine’s parameters. However, to get a more precise simulation, more exact measurements must be done, and more time to experiment with the input and output data in Motor-CAD. The simulation developed in this project can be applied to simulate steady-state behavior of the machine. A suggestion for future work includes more detailed measurements as well as further integrating the simulation in other software platforms to facilitate more dynamic simulations.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:hv-20251 |
| Date | January 2023 |
| Creators | Hagström, Marcus, Jaris, Peter |
| Publisher | Högskolan Väst, Institutionen för ingenjörsvetenskap |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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