Numerical modelling of thermal processes in an electrical transformer dipped into polymerised resin by using commercial CFD package fluent

Computers and Fluids

Volumn 33, Issue 5-6, 2004, Pages 859-868

  Smolka, Jacek ^a   Nowak, Andrzej J ^a   Wrobel, Luiz C ^b  

^a SILESIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^b BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COOLING SYSTEMS; FORCED CONVECTION; HEAT FLUX; HEAT LOSSES; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); ITERATIVE METHODS; NATURAL CONVECTION; RESINS;

THERMAL PROCESSES;

ELECTRIC TRANSFORMERS;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; FORCED CONVECTION; HEAT FLUX; HEAT TRANSFER; NATURAL CONVECTION;

EID: 0346885919     PISSN: 00457930     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compfluid.2003.06.008     Document Type: Article

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