AC analysis is similar to the equivalent circuit based analysis in MotorSolve IM but is more accurate in that the variations of the lumped parameters at various slips are taken into account. Moreover, MotorSolve IM AC analysis option takes into account regions of linear and nonlinear behaviour of the lumped parameters and automatically adapts to such variations with extra sample points in such regions of the parameter space.

AC analysis can be used to obtain all the standard results that induction machine design engineers are interested in such as torque, efficiency, rms bar, end ring and phase currents and many others. In addition, this is the method that is used to generate shaded and contour plots of various fields such as flux density, current density, flux in phase etc. Some examples of calculations using the AC analysis option in MotorSolve IM are presented below (shown here is the mesh used to compute some of the results presented below of a 17 bar - 24 slot squirrel cage induction machine).