Forced-air cooling system design under weight constraint for high-temperature SiC converter

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1998-2007

  Ning, Puqi ^a   Wang, Fei ^b   Ngo, Khai D T ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING   (China)

^b University of Tennessee   (United States)

^c VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DESIGN METHOD; FORCED AIR COOLING; HIGH TEMPERATURE; WEIGHT CONSTRAINTS;

SILICON CARBIDE; THERMOELECTRIC EQUIPMENT;

COOLING SYSTEMS;

EID: 84886684327     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2013.2271259     Document Type: Article

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