Thermal management of high power transformer in different outdoor environment conditions

Thermomechanical Phenomena in Electronic Systems -Proceedings of the Intersociety Conference

Volumn 1, Issue , 2004, Pages 543-548

  Sheltami, Khalid ^a   Refai Ahmed, Gamal ^b   Shwehdi, M H ^a  

^a KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS   (Saudi Arabia)

^b GamaEng   (Canada)

Author keywords

Icepak: CFD Software; Power Transformer; Thermal Conductivity; Thermal modelling CFD: Computational Fluid Dynamics

Indexed keywords

ICEPAK:CFD SOFTWARE; POWER TRANSFORMER; THERMAL MANAGEMENT; THERMAL MODELLING;

AC MACHINERY; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC DISCHARGES; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRIC TRANSFORMERS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; HEAT EXCHANGERS; HEAT LOSSES; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETIC FLUX; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; THERMAL EFFECTS; THERMAL STRESS;

THERMOANALYSIS;

EID: 4444262217     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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