Heat transfer and fluid flow analysis of power transformer's cooling system using CFD approach

Chemical Product and Process Modeling

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Nabati, Hamid ^a   Mahmoudi, Jafar ^a   Ehteram, Ali ^b  

^a MÄLARDALEN UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b TDI ^*  (Denmark)

Author keywords

CFD; cooling system; numerical modeling; power transformer; simulation

Indexed keywords

COOLING EFFICIENCY; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; FLUENT SOFTWARE; HEAT TRANSFER AND FLUID FLOW; MODEL CALIBRATION; NUMERICAL MODELING; NUMERICAL STUDIES; OIL FLOW; PRESSURE INCREASE; RECIRCULATIONS; TECHNICAL DATA;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COOLING; FLOW PATTERNS; POWER TRANSFORMERS; RADIATORS; THERMOELECTRIC EQUIPMENT; TRANSFORMER SUBSTATIONS;

COOLING SYSTEMS;

EID: 77954551399     PISSN: 19342659     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2202/1934-2659.1428     Document Type: Review

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