Setting-up 3D finite element analysis of an inverse reluctance motor for driving light electric vehicles

The paper is the first attempt to 3D approach of a special reluctance motor for the implementation of individual urban transportation. The motor is of inverse construction - inner stator fixed on front wheel shaft and outer rotor linked to wheel rim. This in-wheel motor ensures fundamental requirement of a direct gearless driving the light electric vehicles - to develop high torque at low speed. First, the motor is designed using classical approach and then its model is systematically built for 3D analysis. Geometry and mesh in 2D and 3D representation are introduced as preliminary study for complete finite element analysis.