Procedure for selecting optimal geometric parameters of the rotor for a traction non-partitioned permanent magnet-assisted synchronous reluctance motor

This paper reports the construction of a mathematical model for determining the electromagnetic momentum of a synchronous reluctance motor with non-partitioned permanent magnets. Underlying it is the calculation of the engine magnetic field using the finite-element method in the flat-parallel problem statement. The model has been implemented in the FEMM finite-element analysis environment. The model makes it possible to determine the engine's electromagnetic momentum for various rotor geometries. The problem of conditional optimization of the synchronous reluctance motor rotor was stated on the basis of the rotor geometric criteria. As an analysis problem, it is proposed to use a mathematical model of the engine's magnetic field. Constraints for geometric and strength indicators have been defined. The Nelder-Mead method was chosen as the optimization technique. The synthesis of geometrical parameters of the synchronous reluctance motor rotor with non-partitioned permanent magnets has been proposed on the basis of solving the problem of conditional optimization. The restrictions that are imposed on optimization parameters have been defined. Based on the study results, the dependence of limiting the angle of rotation of the magnet was established on the basis of strength calculations. According to the calculation results based on the proposed procedure, it is determined that the optimal distance from the interpole axis and the angle of rotation of magnets is at a limit established by the strength of the rotor structure. Based on the calculations, the value of the objective function decreased by 24.4 % (from −847 Nm to −1054 Nm), which makes it possible to significantly increase the electromagnetic momentum only with the help of the optimal arrangement of magnets on the engine rotor. The results of solving the problem of synthesizing the rotor parameters for a trolleybus traction motor helped determine the optimal geometrical parameters for arranging permanent magnets.

A Physically Meaningful Relativistic Description of the Spin State of an Electron

We introduced a new model to present the states of a two-state quantum system. The space is the complexified Minkowski space. The Lorentz group acts by the linear extension of its action on the four-vectors. We applied this model to represent the spin state of an electron or any relativistic spin 1/2 particle. The spin state of such particle is of the form U+iS, where U is the four-velocity of the particle in the lab frame, and S is the 4D spin in this frame. Under this description, the transition probability between two pure spin states ϱ1 and ϱ2 of particles moving with the same velocity are defined by use of Minkowski dot product as 12<ϱ2|ϱ1>. This transition probability is Lorentz invariant, coincide with the quantum mechanics prediction and thus agree with the experimental results testing quantum mechanics predictions based on Bell’s inequality. For a a particle of mass m and charge q with the spin state ϱ, the total momentum is mcϱ and the electromagnetic momentum is qϱ. This imply that the Landé g factor for such particles must be g=2. We obtain an evolution equation of the spin state in an electromagnetic field which defines correctly the anomalous Zeeman effect and the fine structure splitting.

A Mechanism for Propulsion without The Reactive Ejection of Matter or Energy

This paper updates earlier thoughts by the author on a putative propulsion system. The concept was based around static electromagnetic momentum, as expounded in the &ldquo;Feynman Disk&rdquo; and experimentally verified by Graham and Lahoz. That said, na&iuml;ve static electromagnetic momentum schemes to achieve linear translation are defeated by &ldquo;hidden momentum&rdquo; mechanisms, so too are simple arrangements just cycling the fields; we shall survey the flaws in their arguments. It may however be possible to achieve linear translation by means of arrangements of torques with a novel mechanism to break the symmetry of forces (or torques) on the second half of the cycle as the field is switched off. At the time of earlier presentation no mechanism could be found to explain the momentum balance for the process but it was believed that momentum was being given to the zero-point of the field. We show that it is possible to dump angular momentum and thence linear momentum to the ground state by standard quantum analysis of the EM field. None of this violates the conservation of momenergy.

Radiation forces and the Abraham–Minkowski problem

Recent years have witnessed a number of beautiful experiments in radiation optics. Our purpose with this paper is to highlight some developments of radiation pressure physics in general, and thereafter to focus on the importance of the mentioned experiments in regard to the classic Abraham–Minkowski problem. That means, what is the “correct” expression for electromagnetic momentum density in continuous matter. In our opinion, one often sees that authors over-interpret the importance of their experimental findings with respect to the momentum problem. Most of these experiments are actually unable to discriminate between these energy–momentum tensors at all, since they can be easily described in terms of force expressions that are common for Abraham and Minkowski. Moreover, we emphasize the inherent ambiguity in applying the formal conservation principles to the radiation field in a dielectric, the reason being that the electromagnetic field in matter is only a subsystem which has to be supplemented by the mechanical subsystem to be closed. Finally, we make some suggestions regarding the connection between macroscopic electrodynamics and the Casimir effect, suggesting that there is a limit for the magnitudes of the cutoff parameters in QFT related to surface tension in ordinary hydromechanics.