Polyphase

Description

Symmetrical three-phase system

Symmetrical three-phases systems of currents (or voltages) consists of three sinusoidalsine waves with an angular displacement of.

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Electrical three-phase machines have (usually) symmetrical three-phase windings whichexcite spatial magnetic potential with a spacial displacement of- with respect to the fundamental wave,see [Laughton02].Such a symmetrical three-phase system of currents (or voltages) can be represented byphasors, as depicted in Fig. 1(a).The associated three-phase winding is depicted in Fig. 2(a). The winding axis are displaced by:

So there is a strong coherence between angular displacement in the time andspatial domain which also applies to polyphase systems.

Fig. 1: Symmetrical (a) three-phase and (b) five-phase current system

Fig. 2: Symmetrical (a) three-phase and (b) five-phase winding

Symmetrical polyphase system

In symmetrical polyphase systems odd and even phase numbers have to be distinguished.

Odd number of phases

For a symmetrical polyphase system with phases the displacement in the time and spatial domain is,as depicted in Fig. 1 and 2.

Mathematically, this symmetry is expressed in terms of phase currents by:

The orientation of the winding axis of such winding is given by:

Even number of phases

In the current implementation of the FundamentalWave library, phase numbers equalto the power of two are not supported. However, any other polyphase system with evenan phase number, ,can be recursively split into various symmetrical systems with odd phase numbers, as depicted in Fig. 3 and 4.The displacement between the two symmetrical systems is.A function for calculating the symmetricOrientation is available.

Fig. 3: Symmetrical (a) six and (b) ten phase current system

Fig. 4: Symmetrical (a) six and (b) ten phase winding

Note

In a fully symmetrical machine, the orientation of the winding axes and the symmetrical currents (or voltages)phasors have different signs; see Fig. 1 and 2 for odd phase numbersand Fig. 3 and 4 for even phase numbers.