Dynamic Simulations of Electric Machinery: Using MATLAB/SIMULINK

I don't think I'd want to try to teach a class from this book. I'd definitely use some material from this for creating labs in Matlab.I like this book for a reference as a professional. Lots of equations, lots of pictures, lots of functional block diagrams to knit the equations together. However, this book is dedicated to machines, not power systems. Generally for power systems you use a canned model of a generator or motor. This book is helpful for understanding the underlying model, but is not targeted to power SYSTEM simulation.(such as one would do with PSS/E or PowerFactory, or PSCAD). Still I consider it a useful addition to my library when I have to go back and understand the underlying details of the machine.To the guy who gave this one star because he didn't get the disk with the book....I found the code on the mathworks website and downloaded it (30 seconds elapsed time from the point I said "I know its out there somewhere...")

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I bought the book and when I received it I found out out that it is not an original book. It is a good quality photocopy. Some people make a photocopy of books and try to sell it as new books. The orginal book comes with a CD. on This photocopied book , they did copy the CD icon on the top left corner of the front cover. On the front cover of The orginal book they mentione that there is a CD that comes with the book.

I like it but there are no magic solutions. In summary the course consists of 200 pages of exercises starting with simple "2nd" intervals in the key of C major all the way up to - well as hard as you like really. It's about putting in the work (e.g. 5 minutes a day) but my sight reading confidence has improved already after a few weeks. Definitely worth the effort. It was recommended to me by the Kerry Beaumont, the Director of Music at Coventry Cathedral who is nothing short of a musical genious.

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

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.

Don't despair if you order a copy of this book and it comes without a CD ROM. The Matlab and Simulnk Programs can be downloaded from Mathworks Web Site. Just look for this book among the long list of Matlab related books listed on Mathwork's Web Site. There you will find a link enabling you to download the Matlab m files and the Simulink mdl files.

Don't hate the book - it is excellent and is exactly what I ordered. However, Amazon sent three copies when I only ordered one. I have been trying - unsuccessfully - to contact the sellers using the Amazon 'Return system' for the other two books so I can return them but to no avail. This will be the last purchase I make using Amazon - making returns is entirely too difficult and time consuming. If you can offer some guidance, it will be greatly appreciated.