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COMPEL-THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR COMPUTATION AND MATHEMATICS IN ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING
Volume 41, Issue 5, Pages 1849-1864Publisher
EMERALD GROUP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1108/COMPEL-02-2021-0063
Keywords
Electrical machine; Shape optimization; Multi-objective optimization; Synchronous reluctance machine
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- Austrian Science Fund (FWF) [P 32911]
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This paper presents a gradient-based free-form shape optimization method for designing a synchronous reluctance machine used in an X-ray tube. The method utilizes the mathematical concept of shape derivatives to obtain optimal designs without introducing geometric parametrization. It also extends the optimization algorithm to handle multiple objective functions and demonstrates a way to obtain an approximate Pareto front. The results show that the presented method can achieve optimal designs with low computational cost compared to a stochastic optimization algorithm.
Purpose This paper aims to deal with the design optimization of a synchronous reluctance machine to be used in an X-ray tube, where the goal is to maximize the torque while keeping low the amount of material used, by means of gradient-based free-form shape optimization. Design/methodology/approach The presented approach is based on the mathematical concept of shape derivatives and allows to obtain new motor designs without the need to introduce a geometric parametrization. This paper presents an extension of a standard gradient-based free-form shape optimization algorithm to the case of multiple objective functions by determining updates, which represent a descent of all involved criteria. Moreover, this paper illustrates a way to obtain an approximate Pareto front. Findings The presented method allows to obtain optimal designs of arbitrary, non-parametric shape with very low computational cost. This paper validates the results by comparing them to a parametric geometry optimization in JMAG by means of a stochastic optimization algorithm. While the obtained designs are of similar shape, the computational time used by the gradient-based algorithm is in the order of minutes, compared to several hours taken by the stochastic optimization algorithm. Originality/value This paper applies the presented gradient-based multi-objective optimization algorithm in the context of free-form shape optimization using the mathematical concept of shape derivatives. The authors obtain a set of Pareto-optimal designs, each of which is a shape that is not represented by a fixed set of parameters. To the best of the authors' knowledge, this approach to multi-objective free-form shape optimization is novel in the context of electric machines.
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