Efficient calculation of transient temperature fields responding to fast changing heatsources over long duration in power electronic systems

IEEE Transactions on Components and Packaging Technologies

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 104-111

  Gerstenmaier, York C ^a   Wachutka, Gerhard K M ^b  

^a SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

DC and ac converter for automotive; Electrothermal simulation; Integrated starter generator; Multichip modules; Thermal transient modeling

Indexed keywords

AUTOMOBILE ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; CALCULATIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MOSFET DEVICES; MULTICHIP MODULES; POWER CONVERTERS; TEMPERATURE; THERMAL EFFECTS; THERMAL GRADIENTS;

ELECTROTHERMAL SIMULATION; INTEGRATED STARTER GENERATOR; THERMAL IMPEDANCE; THERMAL TRANSIENT MODELLING;

ELECTRONICS PACKAGING;

EID: 2442560091     PISSN: 15213331     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCAPT.2004.825767     Document Type: Article

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