• DocumentCode
    1397379
  • Title

    Thermal analysis of induction motor with forced cooling channels

  • Author

    Lee, Yangsoo ; Hahn, Song-Yop ; Kauh, S. Ken

  • Author_Institution
    Center for 3-D Millimter-Wave Integrated Syst., Seoul Nat. Univ., South Korea
  • Volume
    36
  • Issue
    4
  • fYear
    2000
  • fDate
    7/1/2000 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    1398
  • Lastpage
    1402
  • Abstract
    This paper presents a general technique to analyze thermal field of the induction motor which has air ducts in stator and rotor core as forced cooling channels. The thermal network method (TNM) is used to model the motor. To deal with the forced cooling problem, the computation program is composed of both coolant network and noncoolant network. Since these two networks are coupled with each other, they should be solved iteratively. The proposed method is applied to a 5 Hp induction motor and the calculated results show very good agreements to the experimental data
  • Keywords
    cooling; induction motors; iterative methods; machine theory; thermal analysis; air ducts; coolant network; forced cooling channels; induction motor; iterative algorithm; noncoolant network; rotor; stator; thermal analysis; thermal network model; Computer networks; Coolants; Cooling; Couplings; Induction motors; Rotors; Stator cores; Temperature; Thermal conductivity; Thermal force;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Magnetics, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9464
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/20.877700
  • Filename
    877700