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Richard A. McMahon is affiliated with the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily belongs to the field of Engineering, with a strong focus on Electrical and Electronic Engineering.

The scientist's work spans several subfields including Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Control and Systems Engineering, Automotive Engineering, and Aerospace Engineering.

Key research topics covered in their publications include:

  • Electric Motor Design and Analysis
  • Advanced Battery Technologies Research
  • Wind Turbine Control Systems
  • Multilevel Inverters and Converters
  • Wireless Power Transfer Systems
  • Energy Harvesting in Wireless Networks
  • Silicon Carbide Semiconductor Technologies

Richard A. McMahon has authored multiple papers, with recent publications as follows:

  • Influence of Pole-Pair Combinations on the Characteristics of the Brushless Doubly Fed Induction Generator, 2020, IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion
  • Vibration Analysis of Brushless Doubly Fed Machines in the Presence of Rotor Eccentricity, 2020, IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion
  • A New Iron Loss Model for Brushless Doubly-Fed Machines With Hysteresis and Field Rotational Losses, 2021, IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion
  • Eccentricity fault detection in brushless doubly fed induction machines, 2021, IET Electric Power Applications
  • Highly Reliable and Efficient Voltage Optimizer Based on Direct PWM AC-AC Buck Converter, 2020, IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion

The scientist frequently publishes in venues such as:

  • IET conference proceedings.
  • IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion
  • IEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification
  • IET Electric Power Applications
  • Batteries

Collaborations are often made with co-authors including Salman Abdi, Sul Ademi, Ehsan Abdi, Yaohui Gai, and Alex Ridge.

Best Publications

  • Trends in Wind Turbine Generator Systems

    Henk Polinder;Jan Abraham Ferreira;Bogi Bech Jensen;Asger B. Abrahamsen

  • Performance of BDFM as generator and motor

    R.A. McMahon;P.C. Roberts;X. Wang;P.J. Tavner

  • Stator-Flux-Oriented Vector Control for Brushless Doubly Fed Induction Generator

    Shiyi Shao;E. Abdi;F. Barati;R. McMahon

  • Equivalent circuit for the brushless doubly fed machine (BDFM) including parameter estimation and experimental verification

    P.C. Roberts;R.A. McMahon;P.J. Tavner;J.M. Maciejowski

  • Comparison of the Effects of Continuous and Discontinuous PWM Schemes on Power Losses of Voltage-Sourced Inverters for Induction Motor Drives

    Yunxiang Wu;Mohsin A Shafi;Andrew M Knight;Richard A McMahon

  • Crowbarless Fault Ride-Through of the Brushless Doubly Fed Induction Generator in a Wind Turbine Under Symmetrical Voltage Dips

    Teng Long;Shiyi Shao;P. Malliband;E. Abdi

  • The BDFM as a Generator in Wind Turbines

    Richard A. McMahon;Xiaoyan Wan;Eshan Abdi-Jalebi;Peter J. Tavner

  • Low-Cost Variable Speed Drive Based on a Brushless Doubly-Fed Motor and a Fractional Unidirectional Converter

    Shiyi Shao;E. Abdi;R. McMahon

  • Dynamic Control of the Brushless Doubly Fed Induction Generator Under Unbalanced Operation

    Shiyi Shao;Teng Long;E. Abdi;R. A. McMahon

  • A Novel Modeling Approach for Design Studies of Brushless Doubly Fed Induction Generator Based on Magnetic Equivalent Circuit

    Hamed Gorginpour;Hashem Oraee;Richard A. McMahon

  • Performance analysis and testing of a 250 kW medium-speed brushless doubly-fed induction generator

    Ehsan Abdi;Richard McMahon;Paul Malliband;Shiyi Shao

  • High-Performance Low-Cost Rogowski Transducers and Accompanying Circuitry

    E. Abdi-Jalebi;R. McMahon

  • Electromagnetic-Thermal Design Optimization of the Brushless Doubly Fed Induction Generator

    Hamed Gorginpour;Hashem Oraee;Richard A. McMahon

  • Low voltage ride-through of DFIG and brushless DFIG: Similarities and differences

    S. Tohidi;P. Tavner;Richard A. McMahon;Hashem Oraee

  • Modelling of flash-lamp-induced crystallization of amorphous silicon thin films on glass

    M. Smith;R. McMahon;M. Voelskow;D. Panknin

  • Asymmetrical Low-Voltage Ride Through of Brushless Doubly Fed Induction Generators for the Wind Power Generation

    Teng Long;Shiyi Shao;Ehsan Abdi;Richard A. McMahon

  • Electron-beam annealing of ion-implanted silicon

    R.A. McMahon;H. Ahmed

  • Generalized Vector Control for Brushless Doubly Fed Machines With Nested-Loop Rotor

    F. Barati;R. McMahon;Shiyi Shao;E. Abdi

  • Design of a double-jacketed, closed type calorimeter for direct measurement of motor losses

    P.D. Malliband;D.R.H. Carter;B.M. Gordon;R.A. McMahon

  • Flash-lamp annealing of semiconductor materials - Applications and process models

    R.A. McMahon;M.P. Smith;K.A. Seffen;M. Voelskow

  • Generalized Vector Model for the Brushless Doubly-Fed Machine With a Nested-Loop Rotor

    F Barati;Shiyi Shao;E Abdi;H Oraee

  • Precision calorimetry for the accurate measurement of inverter losses

    P.D. Malliband;N.P. van der Duijn Schouten;R.A. McMahon

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter Tavner
Peter Tavner Durham University
Haroon Ahmed
Haroon Ahmed University of Cambridge
W. Skorupa
W. Skorupa Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf
Florin Udrea
Florin Udrea University of Cambridge
Andrew M. Knight
Andrew M. Knight University of Calgary
Gehan A. J. Amaratunga
Gehan A. J. Amaratunga University of Cambridge
Jan Maciejowski
Jan Maciejowski University of Cambridge
Kuang Sheng
Kuang Sheng Zhejiang University
Shengqiang Zhou
Shengqiang Zhou Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf
Bengt Gunnar Svensson
Bengt Gunnar Svensson University of Oslo

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