ABSTRACT
Two examples are worked out which illustrate electromechanical induction design. Each is a two-dimensional solution which reflects the effect of uniform conductor motion on the magnetic field and current density inside and outside the conducting body. This chapter serves to illustrate graphically magnetic field distributions in the presence of a moving conductor, to establish important design principles, and finally to indicate the equivalence between low frequency electromagnetics and electromechanical interactions. The problem of interest is a rotating cylindrical conductor of arbitrary conductivity and magnetic permeability immersed in an initially uniform transverse magnetic field. In addition to field plots and direct experimental verification, there is practical design engineering information available from the field solutions for the rotating cylinder. In the chapter, the magnetic flux distribution inside and outside a conducting cylinder rotating in a uniform DC magnetic field has been derived using the basic laws of induction.
