July 2019
Intermediate to advanced
386 pages
9h 7m
English
This chapter aims to offer the reader an introduction to setting up a lumped parameter model. It is often the engineer’s task to set up a model that enables the representation of a given system. An abstraction effort is therefore required, and the representation of the model to be set up will have a level of detail that depends on the type of excitation and on the intended objective. This chapter draws on an example of an electric fan power drive. It presents deduction approaches that progressively increase model complexity until achieving the intended phenomenon, as well as model reduction approaches that enable the selection of the main elements from an initially complex model.
On completing this chapter, the reader is expected to: