Convection heat transfer and flow calculations suitable for electric machines thermal models

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 55, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 3509-3516

  Staton, David A ^a   Cavagnino, Andrea ^b  

^a MOTOR DESIGN LTD   (United Kingdom)

^b POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Dimensionless correlations; Electrical machines; Flow analysis; Thermal model

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COOLING; ELECTRIC MACHINERY; GRAPH THEORY; HEAT CONVECTION; HEAT EXCHANGERS; HEAT TRANSFER; HEATING EQUIPMENT; MOTORS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; SENSOR NETWORKS; THERMOANALYSIS; THERMOGRAPHY (TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT);

CALIBRATION PARAMETERS; COMMERCIAL SOFTWARES; CONVECTION COOLING; CONVECTION HEAT TRANSFERS; COOLING OPTIMIZATIONS; DIMENSIONLESS ANALYSES; DIMENSIONLESS CORRELATIONS; ELECTRIC MACHINES; ELECTRICAL MACHINES; FLOW ANALYSIS; FLOW CALCULATIONS; FLOW FORMULATIONS; FLOW NETWORK ANALYSES; FLOW NETWORKS; THERMAL ANALYSIS; THERMAL MODEL; THERMAL MODELS;

ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS;

EID: 54249158797     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2008.922604     Document Type: Article

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