Do I see this correctly?
A single phase driving a VFD to 3 phase motor?
You have to have a VFD that is twice the size of the motor to do this, or it will trip.
Best to do it correctly like the previous post.
If you mean using a sync motor as a load; yes, that can be done. I used to do that all the time in my test lab. I used servomotors for this since the company I worked made servomotors we had lots of extras.
Connect the motor leads to a 3 phase variac, take the output of the variac to the...