Comparison of Iron Loss Models for Electrical Machines With Different Frequency Domain and Time Domain Methods for Excess Loss Prediction

The goal of this paper is to investigate the accuracy of modeling the excess loss in electrical steels using a time domain model with Bertotti´s loss model parameters n₀ and V₀ fitted in the frequency domain. Three variants of iron loss models based on Bertotti´s theory are compared for the prediction of iron losses under sinusoidal and non-sinusoidal flux conditions. The non-sinusoidal waveforms are based on the realistic time variation of the magnetic induction in the stator core of an electrical machine, obtained from a finite element-based machine model.