The Scalable Analytical Model for Calculating the Magnetic Field of Surface-Mounted Permanent Magnet Motor

This article develops a scalable analytical model that builds a relationship between any surface-mounted permanent magnet (SPM) motor and a general motor with variable slot-opening and air-gap length, considering both the saturation effect and slotting effect. It can not only give the performance of the single SPM motor but also show internal connection among different SPM motors regardless of the motor power and dimension. To account for the iron saturation, the equivalent saturation current combined with simplified BH curves of iron is introduced to directly present the iron magnetic potential distribution without an iterative process. Thus, the proposed model can be used as the surrogate model in the motor design with little computation and provide great insight into the relationship among motors with different power and dimension. Both finite-element analysis and experiment are carried out to validate the proposed model.