Dynamic Simulations of Electric Machinery : Using MATLAB/SIMULINK

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Summary: Serious challenger to the best book on my shelf
Review: Learning for the first time how an electrical machine works is newer easy, but how hard it is, depends a lot on the form of teaching. Professor Dr. Chi-Mun Ong has done an exelent work on how firstly to model the basic electrical machines (DC-motor, induction motor and synchronous motor) and secondly how to model the motors in a dynamic system. He describes the method of dq0-transformation of currents, voltages etc. in a nice understandable way and uses one of the best tools for constructing and solving coupled dynamic systems. The tool is ofcourse Matlab/simulink. Matlab/simulink is needed to be able to run the examples from the CDROM, but is not needed to understand the text.

I myself might disagree to a degree on how the differential equations themself are solved and I do not like that he uses a base for the angular speed.

There are unfortunately some some errors in the development of the model for the induction motor (i have not checked for the synchronous motor), but they are obvious if the text is used as a base to develop your model.

This is, I must say, nevertheless a very good book

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Summary: Excellent procedure to introduce complex transient phenomena
Review: Teaching the dynamics and transients in electric machines for the Msc students is not easy. Analysis becomes more complex by introducing converters and control. What i found excellent in this book is in introducing many projects of simulation by matlab /simulink at the end of every chapter, which is very helpful for professors and for students to understand the dynamics of DC and AC electric machines. The author introduce also very well AC and DC speed drives. Another excellent point is that we got the Matlab/Simulink projects on a CD with the book and we can use it in workshop for our students.

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Summary: Very good ... must have it !!!
Review: This book is really good and helpful. I think there is only onething missing. Improving the multimachine part in chapter 9 but except of that it is amazing and very good book. Thanks a lot for the book team ...