Rotor cage faults as broken rotor bars, increased bars resistance and end-ring faults can be caused by thermal stresses, due to overload, overheating and thus mechanical stresses, magnetic stresses and dynamic stresses due to shaft torques. Environmental stresses as contamination or abrasion also contributes to the rotor cage faults. The rotor cage faults can also lead to the shaft vibration an...

A rotor-router walk is a deterministic version of a random walk, in which the walker is routed to each of the neighbouring vertices in some fixed cyclic order. We consider here directed covers of graphs (called also periodic trees) and we study several quantities related to rotor-router walks on directed covers. The quantities under consideration are: order of the rotor-router group, order of t...

The problem of controlling a sensorless induction motor (i.e. without rotor speed measurements) is addressed. Smooth reference signals for rotor speed and rotor ‡ux modulus are required to be tracked exponentially and globally. Only semiglobal solutions have been recently obtained in the literature. A global solution is presented for current-fed induction motors which makes use of a novel rotor...

As a wind turbine extracts energy from the wind, induced wind velocities, lower than the freestream velocity, will be present both upstream and downstream of the rotor. In this study, the upstream induction zone of a 225 kW horizontal axis Vestas V27 wind turbine located at the Danish Technical University’s Risø campus is investigated using a scanning Light Detection and Ranging (lidar) system....

Title of Dissertation: Computational Investigation of Micro-Scale Coaxial Rotor Aerodynamics in Hover Vinod K. Lakshminarayan, Doctor of Philosophy, 2009 Dissertation directed by: Dr. James D. Baeder Department of Aerospace Engineering In this work, a compressible Reynolds-Averaged Navier Stokes (RANS) solver is extended to investigate the aerodynamics of a micro-scale coaxial rotor configurati...

Turbocharger is a high speed rotor system supported by a pair of floating ring bearings which comprise of double oil films. The stability of its rotor system is governed by not only the structure of the rotor but also by the nonlinear hydrodynamic force of two oil films. In this paper, a lumped dynamics model is developed for a turbocharger rotor system. In order to investigate the nonlinear be...

This paper presents an active vibration control scheme to reduce unbalanceinduced synchronous vibration in rotor-bearing systems supported on two ball bearings, one of which can be automatically moved to control the effective rotor length and, as an immediate consequence, the rotor stiffness. This dynamic stiffness control scheme, based on frequency analysis, speed control and acceleration sche...

The rotor eddy current losses of a high-speed permanent magnet synchronous motor reduce the efficiency of the motor and increase the temperature rise of the rotor. In severe cases, the permanent magnet of the rotor can be demagnetized, affecting the safe operation of the motor. In this paper, an analytical model of rotor eddy current losses calculation based on Maxwell equations is introduced. ...

In rotor walk on a graph, the exits from each vertex follow a prescribed periodic sequence. We show that any rotor walk on the d-dimensional lattice Z visits at least on the order of t distinct sites in t steps. This result extends to Eulerian graphs with a volume growth condition. In a uniform rotor walk the first exit from each vertex is to a neighbor chosen uniformly at random. We prove a sh...

A rotor configuration on a graph contains in every vertex an infinite ordered sequence of rotors, each is pointing to a neighbor of the vertex. After sampling a configuration according to some probability measure, a rotor walk is a deterministic process: at each step it chooses the next unused rotor in its current location, and uses it to jump to the neighboring vertex to which it points. Rotor...