TY - JOUR
T1 - Iterative conjugate heat transfer analysis for heat transfer enhancement of an externally cooled three-phase induction motor
AU - Tiwari, Ankit
AU - Yavuzkurt, Savas
PY - 2017/1/1
Y1 - 2017/1/1
N2 - A novel iterative conjugate heat transfer method is proposed for thermal modelling of a drill pump motor which is a constant speed three-phase induction motor. The major advantage of this technique is that it enables computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and heat transfer analysis of the rotor and the stator in a segregated manner. The two are then coupled in a separate annulus model, which represents the air gap, via boundary conditions on the annulus walls. This greatly reduces the total number of computational cells and enables good quality mesh generation - a pre-requisite for accurate CFD predictions. To validate this method, a baseline CFD and heat transfer analysis was done using FLUENT and the maximum temperature prediction was found to be within 1.75% of the previously done experiments on the existing design of the machine. Further, this method was applied to develop a heat transfer enhancement solution which reduced the maximum temperature in the drill motor from 203.5 °C to 172.9 °C.
AB - A novel iterative conjugate heat transfer method is proposed for thermal modelling of a drill pump motor which is a constant speed three-phase induction motor. The major advantage of this technique is that it enables computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and heat transfer analysis of the rotor and the stator in a segregated manner. The two are then coupled in a separate annulus model, which represents the air gap, via boundary conditions on the annulus walls. This greatly reduces the total number of computational cells and enables good quality mesh generation - a pre-requisite for accurate CFD predictions. To validate this method, a baseline CFD and heat transfer analysis was done using FLUENT and the maximum temperature prediction was found to be within 1.75% of the previously done experiments on the existing design of the machine. Further, this method was applied to develop a heat transfer enhancement solution which reduced the maximum temperature in the drill motor from 203.5 °C to 172.9 °C.
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U2 - 10.1049/iet-epa.2016.0194
DO - 10.1049/iet-epa.2016.0194
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85010790048
VL - 11
SP - 99
EP - 107
JO - IET Electric Power Applications
JF - IET Electric Power Applications
SN - 1751-8660
IS - 1
ER -