FluSHELL - A Tool for Thermal Modelling and Simulation of Windings for Large Shell-Type Power Transformers

• Main Author: Campelo, Hugo (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Springer Theses, Recognizing Outstanding Ph.D. Research,
• Subjects: Fluid mechanics.; Power electronics.; Thermodynamics.; Heat engineering.; Heat transfer.; Mass transfer.; Computer mathematics.; Chemical engineering.; Materials science.; Force and energy.; Engineering Fluid Dynamics.; Power Electronics, Electrical Machines and Networks.; Engineering Thermodynamics, Heat and Mass Transfer.; Computational Science and Engineering.; Industrial Chemistry/Chemical Engineering.; Energy Materials.

This thesis addresses a novel application of network modelling methodologies to power transformers. It develops a novel thermal model and compares its performance against that of a commercial computational fluid dynamics (CFD) code, as well as in experiments conducted in a dedicated setup built excl...