Design for better thermal management in high-power high-frequency transformers

Conference Record - IAS Annual Meeting (IEEE Industry Applications Society)

Volumn 4, Issue , 2005, Pages 2615-2621

  Pavlovsky, M ^a   De Haan, S W H ^a   Ferreira, J A ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Dc dc power converter; FEM simulation; High frequency high power transformer; Thermal design; Thermal network modeling

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; HEAT CONDUCTION; HEAT EXCHANGERS; HEAT PIPES; SURFACES;

DC-DC POWER CONVERTER; FEM SIMULATION; HIGH-FREQUENCY HIGH-POWER TRANSFORMER; THERMAL DESIGN; THERMAL NETWORK MODELING;

ELECTRIC TRANSFORMERS;

EID: 33745966820     PISSN: 01972618     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IAS.2005.1518829     Document Type: Conference Paper

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