Vilém Klíma

Little is known about Klíma. However, his name appears in a list of lecturers[wl 1] in the ghetto of Terezín.[nb 2] The entry details for Kauders record the following:

Klíma is also mentioned in the book[wl 2] University Over The Abyss: The story behind 520 lecturers and 2,430 lectures in KZ Theresienstadt 1942–1944 by Makarova.[6] A very interesting detail from the book relates how Dr. Goldschmied and Dr. Kauders were secretly taken to Germany to improve the performance of German radar.[nb 4] A witness, Gerda Haas,[wl 3] remembered the following:

One day, the two were ordered to prepare themselves to leave Terezin. Their suitcases must have been cleaned of any signs and numbers, yellow stars were torn off. They were told that they would be employed for a large industrial concern in Germany. Their dependents stayed in Terezin. Soon, Kauders sent a postcard saying that he was in the [concentration camp] Rosenberg (or -burg), where he was freezing terribly and where he worked on his books all day.

The first book by Klíma entitled Trojfázové komutátorové derivační motory : jejich teorie a praxe[wl 4] was published in 1962. Then in 1975, together with H. Jordan and K.P. Kovács, Vilém Klíma published a book on induction machines entitled Asynchronmaschinen.[7]

Vilém Klíma finished his studies with distinction in 1928 at the German technical University in Prague. He then started to work for the company ČKD (Českomoravská Kolben-Daněk) in Prague. In 1932 Vilém Klíma received his Dr.-Ing. for his dissertation entitled Systematik der Drehstromwicklungen.

After the Munich Agreement in September 1938, Germany annexed the Czech boundary territory, and later (in March 1939) occupied the whole of Bohemia. Then, in November 1941, Vilém Klíma was ordered to leave for the concentration camp at Terezín, which was a holding camp for Jews from central and southern Europe, and was regularly cleared of its overcrowded population by transports to death camps such as Auschwitz. During April 1945 Vilém Klíma survived the so-called death march (a miracle at that time). Because of the hated German occupation of Czechoslovakia, Klíma changed his name from Wilhelm Kauders to Vilém Klíma. (At the time Czech families with German names frequently changed their names to Czech-sounding names.)

After the war Klíma started a research centre, Centre for Electric Machines, in Brno where he served as the first director until 1951. In 1958 Klíma was awarded the title of Dr.Scientium technicarum for his thesis entitled Theorie der Selbstserregung von Drehstromnebenschluß-kommutatormotoren mit Kondensatoren im Läuferkreis und ihre Verhütung. Until his retirement in 1973 he was part of the research centre in Běchovice near Prague. Vilém Klíma died on 6 October 1985 in Prague.

Until now, the literature that refers to Klíma's closed expression is very limited. Authors that refer to the closed expression are Kremser[8] Brune[9] and Germishuizen.[10] Additionally, Kremser and Brune are all related to the university of Hanover where Vilém Klíma regularly held lectures since 1964 as reported by Frohne.

The distribution factor, as summarised by Brune, for all types of m-phase symmetrical fractional slot windings is given as

${\displaystyle \xi _{p}={\begin{cases}{\cfrac {\sin \left({\frac {\pi }{Q_{s}}}Y_{k}q_{1}\nu \right)-e^{j{\frac {\pi }{t}}Y_{k}\nu }\sin \left({\frac {\pi }{Q_{s}}}Y_{k}q_{2}\nu \right)}{\left(q_{1}+q_{2}\right)\sin \left({\frac {\pi }{Q_{s}}}Y_{k}\nu \right)}}e^{j{\frac {\pi }{Q_{s}}}Y_{k}\left(q_{1}-1\right)\nu }&q_{1}\neq q_{2}\\{\cfrac {\sin \left({\frac {\pi }{Q_{s}}}Y_{k}q_{1}\nu \right)}{q_{1}\sin \left({\frac {\pi }{Q_{s}}}Y_{k}\nu \right)}}&q_{1}=q_{2}\\\end{cases}}}$

where

${\displaystyle Y_{k}={\frac {gQ_{s}}{p}}+{\frac {Q_{s}}{Q_{b}p}}\quad {\begin{cases}t={\mbox{gcd}}(Q_{s},p)\\Q_{b}={\cfrac {Q_{s}}{t}}\\g={\mbox{smallest integer for which}}\ Y_{k}\in \mathbb {N} \\\end{cases}}}$

is the commutator pitch. The numbers q₁ and q₂ depend on whether Q_b is even or odd and are calculated as follows:

${\displaystyle q_{1}={\begin{cases}q_{2}={\cfrac {Q_{b}}{2m}}&Q_{b}\ {\mbox{even}}\\q_{2}+1={\cfrac {Q_{b}+m}{2m}}&Q_{b}\ {\mbox{odd}}\\\end{cases}}}$