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The paper seeks to investigate the effect of the rotor‐phase sequence connection on the steady‐state stability of the brushless cascaded doubly‐fed machine (BCDFM). The stability…
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The paper seeks to investigate the effect of the rotor‐phase sequence connection on the steady‐state stability of the brushless cascaded doubly‐fed machine (BCDFM). The stability analysis is carried out considering the eigenvalue method.
Design/methodology/approach
The BCDFM includes a two wound‐rotor induction machines: a power machine cascaded to a control one. The BCDFM modeling is firstly treated considering a Park reference frame linked to the rotating field of the power machine, and for both rotor‐phase sequence connections. Then, a state representation related to small perturbations is established following the linearisation of the BCDFM model around a steady‐state operating point. This allows the investigation of the BCDFM steady‐state stability and efficiency.
Findings
It has been found that the electrical variables of the control machine power supply greatly affect the BCDFM steady‐state stability and efficiency.
Research limitations/implications
The work should be extended considering a validation of the established results through experimental tests.
Originality/value
The small perturbation model of the BCDFM has been introduced for the first time which is the key of the machine steady‐state stability analysis and efficiency investigation.
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Faïçal Jallali, Afef Bouchhima and Ahmed Masmoudi
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the steady‐state stability and features of the brushless cascaded doubly fed machine (BCDFM), which is made up of two wound‐rotor…
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Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the steady‐state stability and features of the brushless cascaded doubly fed machine (BCDFM), which is made up of two wound‐rotor induction machines: the power machine (PM) and the control one, with their rotors mechanically and electrically coupled.
Design/methodology/approach
The machine modelling is first treated considering a Park reference frame linked to the rotating field of the PM. Then, a state representation related to small perturbations is established following the linearisation of the BCDFM model around a steady‐state operating point. This allows the investigation of BCDFM steady‐state stability, power flow and the torque‐speed characteristics.
Findings
It has been found that the electrical variables of the control machine greatly affect the BCDFM steady‐state stability and characteristics.
Research limitations/implications
The work should be extended considering a validation of the established results through experimental tests.
Originality/value
The steady‐state small perturbation of the BCDFM model has been introduced for the first time, which is the key of the machine steady‐stability analysis and features investigation.
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The doubly fed machine (DFM) is presently given an increasing attention in high power variable speed drives and in wind power generation systems, where it exhibits high…
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The doubly fed machine (DFM) is presently given an increasing attention in high power variable speed drives and in wind power generation systems, where it exhibits high performances. This has been gained thanks to the stator flux oriented control. Nevertheless, beyond the effect of heating, the robustness of such control strategy is affected by saturation especially the main magnetic one. Accounting for the effect of the magnetizing branch saturation in steady‐state stability analysis, considering the case of a voltage‐controlled DFM and the case of a current‐controlled one, represents the aim of the study. To this end, a numerical procedure based on a combination of the eigenvalue and the fixed point methods has been developed. It has been found that, in both cases, accounting for saturation yields a stabilization effect which is more or less significant depending on the rotor supply parameters.
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Abhishek Ghosh and Sisir Kumar Guha
Several researchers have observed that to satisfy modern day’s need, it is essential to enhance the characteristics of journal bearing, which is used in numerous applications…
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Several researchers have observed that to satisfy modern day’s need, it is essential to enhance the characteristics of journal bearing, which is used in numerous applications. Moreover, the use of Newtonian fluid as a lubricant is diminishing day by day, and the use of Non-Newtonian fluids is coming more into picture. Furthermore, if turbo-machinery applications are taken into account, then it can be seen that journal bearings are used for high speed applications as well. Thus, neglecting turbulent conditions may lead to erroneous results. Hence, this paper aims to present focuses on studying the stability characteristics of finite hydrodynamic journal bearing under turbulent coupled-stress lubrication.
Design/methodology/approach
First, the governing equation relevant to the problem is generated. Then, the dynamic analysis is carried out by linear perturbation technique, leading to three perturbed equations, which are again discretized by finite difference method. Finally, these discretized equations are solved with the help of Gauss-Seidel Iteration technique with successive over relaxation scheme. Consequently, the film response coefficients and the stability parameters are evaluated at different parametric conditions.
Findings
It has been concluded from the study that with increase in value of the coupled-stress parameter, the stability of the journal may increase. Whereas, with increase in Reynolds number, the stability of the journal decreases. On the other hand, stability increases with increasing values of slenderness ratio.
Originality/value
Researches have been performed to study the dynamic characteristics of journal bearing with non-Newtonian fluid as the lubricant. But in the class of non-Newtonian lubricants, the use of coupled-stress fluid has not yet been properly investigated. So, an attempt has been made to perform the stability analysis of bearings with coupled-stress fluid as the advanced lubricant.
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Lixiang Li, Hongxia Ge and Rongjun Cheng
This paper aims to put forward an extended lattice hydrodynamic model, explore its effects on alleviating traffic congestion and provide theoretical basis for traffic management…
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This paper aims to put forward an extended lattice hydrodynamic model, explore its effects on alleviating traffic congestion and provide theoretical basis for traffic management departments and traffic engineering implementation departments.
Design/methodology/approach
The control method is applied to study the stability of the new model. Through nonlinear analysis, the mKdV equation representing kink-antikink soliton is acquired.
Findings
The predictive effect and the control signal can enhance the traffic flow stability and reduce the energy consumption.
Originality/value
The predictive effect and feedback control are first considered in lattice hydrodynamic model simultaneously. Numerical simulations demonstrate that these two factors can enhance the traffic flow stability.
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Francisco Jurado and José Ramón Saenz
This paper presents method to discriminate between transient voltage stability and voltage sag. The discrete wavelet transform (WT) is a powerful tool in the analysis of the…
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This paper presents method to discriminate between transient voltage stability and voltage sag. The discrete wavelet transform (WT) is a powerful tool in the analysis of the transient phenomena in power systems because of its ability to extract information in both the time and frequency domain. This paper introduces a technique for accurate discrimination by combining WTs with neural networks (NNs). The WT is first applied to decompose the signals into a series of detailed wavelet components. The wavelet components are calculated and then employed to train a NN. The simulated results presented clearly show that the proposed technique can accurately discriminate between transient voltage stability and voltage sag in power system protection.
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This paper seeks to explain how inefficient learning rules may lead to a perception of economic and ecological realities that may be systematically distorted in the long run.
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Purpose
This paper seeks to explain how inefficient learning rules may lead to a perception of economic and ecological realities that may be systematically distorted in the long run.
Design/methodology/approach
The paper evaluates long‐term growth in standard growth‐pollution models. Expectations about future levels of pollution are formed under adaptive learning.
Findings
Socio‐economic players (private agents, governments, non‐profit organizations and/or groups of states) may fail in understanding, with full accuracy, long‐term environmental conditions. The perception about environment threats acquires a cyclical nature, even when ecological problems evolve steadily.
Research limitations/implications
Relevant policy implications emerge if the agent is unable to compute the true levels of environmental pollution that will persist in the steady state. Authorities of several kinds are likely to underestimate or overestimate ecological problems.
Practical implications
The learning approach to the perception of the environment can be applied to other economic, social and biological issues, besides material growth. For instance, it can contribute to explain some cases of over‐exploitation of resources: even in the presence of a social planner capable of avoiding typical “tragedy of the commons” situations, this entity may fail in perceiving the reality and, thus, in applying the policies that prevent the exhaustion of resources.
Originality/value
The paper contributes to the literature on growth and environmental issues, but takes a step forward: it approaches not only the observed relation between economy and ecology, but also the impact over the observed relation of a systematically incorrect interpretation of such a connection.
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