Transactions section: Preprint of corresponding pages from the current annual AIEE transactions volume: Saturated synchronous machines under transient conditions in the pole axis

THE performance of synchronous machines in steady-state operation, as well as in the transient state, is substantially determined by magnetic saturation in their iron circuits.^13,14,20 It is well-known that high initial and sustained short-circuit currents develop under widely different conditions of saturation and that large capacitive loading is unstable but for the effect of saturation.