access icon free Coupling calculation and analysis of three-dimensional temperature and fluid field for high-power high-speed permanent magnet machine

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Received 14/10/2018, Accepted 29/04/2019, Revised 28/04/2019, Published 30/04/2019

In order to accurately estimate the temperature rise for high-power high-speed permanent magnet machines (HSPMMs), a novel temperature calculation method considering the non-linear variation of material properties with temperature is proposed based on multi-physics co-simulation analysis. According to the theory of computational fluid dynamics and heat transfer, the computation model of fluid–solid–heat coupling heat transfer is established, and the coupled field is calculated using finite volume method with fundamental assumptions and corresponding boundary conditions. With the influences from temperature gradient and water flow rate considered, the heat transfer coefficients of water pipe surfaces are obtained by the application of the inverse iteration method. Thus, HSPMM temperature and fluid field can be simulated numerically by the finite volume methods, while the spatial temperature distributions for the machine main components are analysed in this study. The 1.12 MW, 18,000 rpm HSPMM is prototyped with experiments conducted on it, while the test data are then compared with the calculated results, which validate the correctness of the solution method of the coupled field.

Inspec keywords: pipes; finite element analysis; temperature distribution; finite volume methods; computational fluid dynamics; heat transfer; iterative methods; machine windings; permanent magnet machines

Other keywords: fluid–solid–heat coupling heat transfer; temperature rise; novel temperature calculation method; high-power high-speed permanent magnet machine; heat transfer coefficients; fluid field; power 1.12 MW; HSPMM temperature; spatial temperature distributions; coupled field; three-dimensional temperature; temperature gradient; finite volume method; multiphysics co-simulation analysis; computational fluid dynamics

Subjects: Fluid mechanics and aerodynamics (mechanical engineering); General fluid dynamics theory, simulation and other computational methods; Numerical analysis; Numerical approximation and analysis; Finite element analysis; Applied fluid mechanics; Convection and heat transfer

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