Title |
A Study of Coupled Electromagnetic-Thermal Field Analysis for Temperature Rise Prediction of Power Transformer |
Authors |
안현모(Ahn, Hyun-Mo) ; 김민수(Kim, Min-Soo) ; 송재성(Song, Jae-Sung) ; 한성진(Hahn, Sung-Chin) |
DOI |
https://doi.org/10.5370/KIEE.2011.60.10.1838 |
Keywords |
Computational Fluid Dynamics(CFD) ; Coupled analysis ; Power transformer ; Temperature rise |
Abstract |
This paper deals with coupled electromagnetic-thermal field analysis for thermal fluid analysis of oil immersed power transformer. Electric power losses are calculated from electromagnetic field analysis and are used as input source of thermal field analysis based on computational fluid dynamics(CFD). Particularly, In order to accurately predict the temperature rise in oil immersed power transformer, the thermal problem should be coupled with the electromagnetic problem. Moreover, to reduce analysis region, the heat transfer coefficient is applied to boundary surface of the power transformer model. The coupling method results are compared with the experimental values for verifying the validity of the analysis. The predicted temperature rises show good agreements with the experimental values. |