Coupled 3-D Thermal and Electromagnetic Modelling of a Liquid-cooled Transverse Flux Traction Motor
Paper in proceeding, 2018

Modelling of electrical machines is constantly refined and it is now possible to couple CFD thermal models with FEM electromagnetic models, thereby considering the thermal effects on motor materials. Usually, the models are reduced as much as possible (i.e. 2-D instead of 3-D or using symmetry conditions) in order to reduce calculation time and computer resources. However, in this paper it is shown how to model an interior permanent magnet transverse flux (TF -IPM) motor in 3-D so to be able to include magnet, core and copper loss and the effect of air and liquid cooling. The simulation results are compared with results of a comparably sized liquid-cooled radial flux IPM (RF-IPM) motor. It is shown that the TF-motor cooling is very efficient due to the lack of end-windings.

Electromagnetic modeling

thermal modeling.

Permanent magnet machine

Author

Sonja Lundmark

Chalmers, Electrical Engineering, Electric Power Engineering

Alessandro Acquaviva

Chalmers, Electrical Engineering, Electric Power Engineering

Anders Bergqvist

Chalmers, Electrical Engineering, Electric Power Engineering

Proceedings - 2018 23rd International Conference on Electrical Machines, ICEM 2018

2640-2646 8506835
978-153862477-7 (ISBN)

2018 XIII International Conference on Electrical Machines (ICEM)
Alexandroupoli, Greece,

Virtual HybrId CooLing (VeHICLe)

Swedish Energy Agency (41213-1), 2016-02-10 -- 2018-12-31.

Areas of Advance

Transport

Energy

Subject Categories

Energy Engineering

Other Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering

DOI

10.1109/ICELMACH.2018.8506835

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