Coolant Flow Distribution and Pressure Loss in ONAN Transformer Windings - Part I: Theory and Model Development

IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 186-193

  Zhang, Jiahui ^a   Li, Xianguo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Disk type; Flow distribution; Hydraulic model; Pressure loss; Transformer

Indexed keywords

CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; COOLANTS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; GRAVITATION; HYDRAULIC MODELS; MACHINE DESIGN; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TURBULENCE;

FLOW DISTRIBUTION; PRESSURE LOSSES;

TRANSFORMER WINDINGS;

EID: 0348129455     PISSN: 08858977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPWRD.2003.820225     Document Type: Article

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