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Electro-quasistatic analysis of an electrostatic induction micromotor using the cell method
José Miguel Monzón-Verona1, Francisco Jorge Santana-Martín, Santiago García-Alonso
1University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Department of Electrical Engineering, Institute for Applied Microelectronics, Campus Univ. de Tafira s/n, 35017 Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain. jmonzon@die.ulpgc.es
Abstract:
An electro-quasistatic analysis of an induction micromotor has been realized by using the Cell Method. We employed the direct Finite Formulation (FF) of the electromagnetic laws, hence, avoiding a further discretization. The Cell Method (CM) is used for solving the field equations at the entire domain (2D space) of the micromotor. We have reformulated the field laws in a direct FF and analyzed physical quantities to make explicit the relationship between magnitudes and laws. We applied a primal-dual barycentric discretization of the 2D space. The electric potential has been calculated on each node of the primal mesh using CM. For verification purpose, an analytical electric potential equation is introduced as reference. In frequency domain, results demonstrate the error in calculating potential quantity is neglected (<3‰). In time domain, the potential value in transient state tends to the steady state value.
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