Winding hottest-spot temperature analysis in dry-type transformer using numerical simulation

Energies

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2019, Pages

  Mafra, Rafael Gonçalves ^a   Dos Santos Magalhães, Elisan ^a   De Campos Salles Anselmo, Bruno ^a   Belchior, Fernando Nunes ^b   Lima e Silva, Sandro Metrevelle Marcondes ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF ITAJUBÁ   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF GOIÁS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

COMSOL Multiphysics ; Dry type transformer; Free convection; Hottest spot temperature

Indexed keywords

HEAT CONDUCTION; NUMERICAL MODELS; THERMOANALYSIS;

COMSOL MULTIPHYSICS; DRY-TYPE TRANSFORMER; EMPIRICAL CORRELATIONS; HEAT CONDUCTION EQUATIONS; HOTTEST-SPOT TEMPERATURES; RADIATION EMISSIONS; TEMPERATURE RESIDUALS; TRANSFORMER INSULATION;

NATURAL CONVECTION;

EID: 85060043299     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19961073     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/en12010068     Document Type: Article

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