Prototyping a ferrofluid-cooled transformer

IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1289-1298

  Pîslarun Danescu, Lucian ^a   Morega, Alexandru M ^b   Morega, Mihaela ^b   Stoica, Victor ^a   Marinica, Oana Maria ^c   Nouras, Florica ^d   Paduraru, Nicolae ^e   Borbath, István ^e   Borbath, Tünde ^e  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT IN MICROTECHNOLOGIES   (Romania)

^b UNIVERSITY POLITEHNICA OF BUCHAREST   (Romania)

^c ACADEMY OF ROMANIAN SCIENTISTS   (Romania)

^d Electrical Engineering Co   (Romania)

^e ROSEAL SA   (Romania)

Author keywords

Electromagnetic analysis; magnetic liquids; numerical simulation; power transformers prototype; thermal analysis

Indexed keywords

COOLANTS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; HEAT TRANSFER; MAGNETIC FLUIDS; NANOFLUIDICS; NANOMAGNETICS; NANOPARTICLES; NUMERICAL MODELS; OIL FILLED TRANSFORMERS; POWER TRANSFORMERS;

ELECTRICAL TRANSFORMERS; ELECTROMAGNETIC ANALYSIS; FLUID-DYNAMICS; LOW POWER; MAGNETIC DYNAMICS; MAGNETIC LIQUIDS; MEDIUM VOLTAGE; POWER TRANSFORMER PROTOTYPE; POWER VOLTAGE; STEP UP/STEP DOWNS;

THERMOANALYSIS;

EID: 84877890393     PISSN: 00939994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIA.2013.2252872     Document Type: Article

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