Staff profile
Overview
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Dr Christopher Donaghy-Spargo
Fellow

Affiliation | Room number | Telephone |
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Fellow in the Durham Energy Institute |
Publications
Conference Paper
- Donaghy-Spargo, C. M., Mecrow, B. C. & Widmer, J. D. (2017), Leakage Inductance of a Prototyped Single Tooth Wound Synchronous Reluctance Motor, International Electrical Machines and Drives (IEMDC) Conference. Miami, Florida, IEEE, Piscataway, 556-561.
- Donaghy-Spargo, C. M., Mecrow, B. C. & Widmer, J. D. (2017), Modelling of a 6 Slot 4 Pole Single Tooth Wound Synchronous Reluctance Motor, International Electrical Machines and Drives (IEMDC) Conference. Miami, Florida, USA, IEEE, Piscataway.
- Donaghy-Spargo, C.M. (2017), Electromagnetic Design of a Synchronous Reluctance Motor with Single Tooth Windings, INTERMAG 2017. Dublin, Ireland, IEEE.
- Spargo, C.M. & Yakovlev, A. (2015), Oliver Heaviside FRS: Newcastle upon Tyne 1868-1874, IET History of Technology Network: Conference on the history of power and engineering. Newcastle upon Tyne.
- Spargo, C. M., Mecrow, B. C. & Widmer, J. D. (2014), Design of a synchronous reluctance motor with non-overlapping fractional-slot concentrated windings, 2014 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE). Pittsburgh, USA, IEEE, Piscataway, 1393-1399.
- Spargo, C. M., Mecrow, B. C. & Widmer, J. D. (2014), Synchronous reluctance motors with toroidal windings, 2014 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE). Pittsburgh, USA, IEEE, Piscataway, 1374-1378.
- Spargo, C.M., Mecrow, B.C. & Widmer, J.D. (2014), Higher pole number synchronous reluctance machines with fractional slot concentrated windings, 7th IET International Conference on Power Electronics, Machines and Drives (PEMD 2014). Manchester, England, IET, 1-6.
- Spargo, C.M., Mecrow, B.C. & Widmer, J.D. (2014), Computationally efficient skew effect calculation in electric machines utilising harmonic Maxwellian stress decomposition, 2014 International Conference on Electrical Machines (ICEM). Berlin, IEEE, 1044-1049.
- Spargo, C.M., Mecrow, B.C. & Widmer, J.D. (2013), Application of fractional slot concentrated windings to synchronous reluctance machines, 2013 International Electric Machines & Drives Conference. Chicago, IL, IEEE, Piscataway, 618-625.
- Widmer, J.D., Martin, R., Spargo, C.M., Mecrow, B.C. & Celik, T. (2012), Winding configurations for a six phase switched reluctance machine, 2012 XXth International Conference on Electrical Machines. Marseille, IEEE, 532-538.
- Widmer, J.D., Mecrow, B.C., Spargo, C.M., Martin, R. & Celik, T. (2012), Use of a 3 phase full bridge converter to drive a 6 phase switched reluctance machine, 6th IET International Conference on Power Electronics, Machines and Drives (PEMD 2012). Bristol, IET.
Journal Article
- Donaghy-Spargo, C. M. & Spargo, A. J. (2019). Use of Fractional-Conductor Windings and Semi-Magnetic Slot Wedges in Synchronous Machines. Journal of Engineering 2019(17): 4936-4400.
- Donaghy-Spargo, C. M. & Horsfall, A. B. (2019). Transient Skin Effect in Power Electronic Applications. Journal of Engineering 2019(17): 3696-3700.
- Bradley, L., Atkinson, G. J., Horsfall, A.B. & Donaghy-Spargo, C. M. (2019). Evaluating Suitable Semiconducting Materials for Cryogenic Power Electronics. The Journal of Engineering 2019(17): 4475-4479.
- Donaghy-Spargo, C. M. (2018). On Heaviside’s Contributions to Transmission Line Theory: Waves, Diffusion and Energy Flux. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences 376(2134): 20170457.
- Donaghy-Spargo, C. M. & Yakovlev, A. (2018). Oliver Heaviside's Electromagnetic Theory. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences 376(2134): 20180229.
- Donaghy-Spargo, C. M. (2018). Energy Efficient Motors on an Industrial Scale. Science in Parliament 74(1): 7-9.
- Donaghy-Spargo, C.M., Mecrow, B.C. & Widmer, J.D. (2018). On the Influence of Increased Stator Leakage Inductance in Single Tooth Wound Synchronous Reluctance Motors. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics 65(6): 4475-4482.
- Donaghy-Spargo, C. M. (2017). Rotating Electrical Machines: Poynting Flow. European Journal of Physics 38(5): 055204.
- Donaghy-Spargo, C. M. (2017). Electromagnetic-Mechanical Design of Synchronous Reluctance Rotors with Fine Features. IEEE Transactions on Magnetics 53(11): 8206308.
- Donaghy-Spargo, C.M., Mecrow, B.C. & Widmer, J.D. (2017). Electromagnetic Analysis of a Synchronous Reluctance Motor with Single Tooth Windings. IEEE Transactions on Magnetics 53(11): 8206207.
- Donaghy-Spargo, C. M. (2016). Synchronous Reluctance Motor Technology: Opportunities, Challenges and Future Direction. Engineering & Technology Reference 1-15.
- Spargo, C.M., Mecrow, B.C., Widmer, J.D., Morton, C. & Baker, N.J. (2015). Design and Validation of a Synchronous Reluctance Motor With Single Tooth Windings. IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion 30(2): 795-805.
- Spargo, C.M., Mecrow, B.C., Widmer, J.D. & Morton, C. (2015). Application of Fractional-Slot Concentrated Windings to Synchronous Reluctance Motors. IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications 51(2): 1446-1455.
- Widmer, J.D., Spargo, C.M., Atkinson, G.J. & Mecrow, B.C. (2014). Solar Plane Propulsion Motors With Precompressed Aluminum Stator Windings. IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion 29(3): 681-688.
- Morton, C., Spargo, C.M. & Pickert, V. (2014). Electrified hydraulic power steering system in hybrid electric heavy trucks. IET Electrical Systems in Transportation 4(3): 70-77.
- Spargo, C.M., Mecrow, B.C. & Widmer, J.D. (2014). A Seminumerical Finite-Element Postprocessing Torque Ripple Analysis Technique for Synchronous Electric Machines Utilizing the Air-Gap Maxwell Stress Tensor. IEEE Transactions on Magnetics 50(5): 7026909.
- Spargo, C.M., Furnival, B.J.D., Mahapatra, R.M., Goss, J.P., Wright, N.G. & Horsfall, A.B. (2012). Identification of Slow States at the SiO2/SiC Interface through Sub-Bandgap Illumination. Materials Science Forum 717-720: 801.