Electro‐Quasistatic Analysis of an Electrostatic Induction Micromotor Using the Cell Method.docVIP

Sensors 2010, 10, 9102-9117; doi:10.3390/s101009102 OPEN ACCESS sensors ISSN 1424-8220 /journal/sensors Article Electro‐Quasistatic Analysis of an Electrostatic Induction Micromotor Using the Cell Method José Miguel Monzón-Verona 1, Francisco Jorge Santana-Martín 1, Santiago García–Alonso 2 and Juan Antonio Montiel-Nelson 2,* 1 University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Department of Electrical Engineering, Institute for Applied Microelectronics, Campus Univ. de Tafira s/n, 35017 Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain; E-Mails: jmonzon@die.ulpgc.es (J.M.M.-V.); fsantana@die.ulpgc.es (F.J.S.-M.) 2 University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Department of Electronic Engineering and Automatic, Institute for Applied Microelectronics, Campus Univ. de Tafira s/n, 35017 Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain; E-Mail: sgarcia@diea.ulpgc.es (S.G.-A.) * ? Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; E-Mail: montiel@iuma.ulpgc.es; Tel.: +34-928-451-252; Fax: +34-928-451-083. This paper was originally presented at ISEF 2009 and submitted to the Special Issue: ISEF 2009. Received: 16 August 2010; in revised form: 29 September 2010 / Accepted: 30 September 2010 / Published: 11 October 2010 Abstract: An electro-quasistatic analysis of an induction micromotor has been realized by using the Cell Method. We employed the direct Finite Formulation (FF) of the electromagnetic laws, hence, avoiding a further discretization. The Cell Method (CM) is used for solving the field equations at the entire domain (2D space) of the micromotor. We have reformulated the field laws in a direct FF and analyzed physical quantities to make explicit the relationship between magnitudes and laws. We applied a primal-dual barycentric discretization of the 2D space. The electric potential has been calculated on each node of the primal mesh using CM. For verification purpose, an analytical electric potential equation is introduced as reference.