Research
In my research activities I try to follow my education - electrical machines, especially their design, but also theoretical problems related to electrical machinery and their work. The sphere of my (or ours, since in most cases I work together in team with my colleagues) activities may be found in more sources, which are not, unfortunately, complete - a part may be found in library of UWB (includes only public results) and partially in OBD 2.0 export, which includes only data till half of year 2011. The current version of OBD (3.1), which includes current data unfortunately lacks such an export feature.
If I should define my focus in a few points, it would look like following:
- electro-magnetic design of electrical machines
- analysis of electrical machines using analytic methods
- analysis of electrical machines using finite element method
- analyses of windings if electrical machines
- practical applications of theory of electromagnetic field
As my (ours) greatest success I personally consider the design of BLDC machine with permanent magnets placed on outer runner rotor, which was made for E-Glider.com (distributed also separately from NT-Power.eu). This machine was a unique opportunity to have a physical result of our work. One of those "less physical" results of my work is program for analysis of AC windings Görges, released under open-source license GNU/GPL. This program also allowed me to start a relative intense research on tooth windings and their parameters, that I currently do with my colleague engineer Martin Zeman.
On similar base I have recently started to analyse the excitation field of synchronous machines with cylindrical rotor, especially wit focus on its usage at multiple-pole machines. According to current results, which should be published during this year, it seems that recent calculations have very good results and this conception could be very useful in traction applications. But, as seen from the publication list, I more do what is currently necessary, than some concrete application in long-term :-)