학술논문

An Algorithm for Effective Design and Performance Investigation of Active Cooling System for Required Temperature and Torque of PM Traction Motor
Document Type
Periodical
Source
IEEE Transactions on Magnetics IEEE Trans. Magn. Magnetics, IEEE Transactions on. 57(2):1-7 Feb, 2021
Subject
Fields, Waves and Electromagnetics
Cooling
Traction motors
Permanent magnet motors
Torque
Prototypes
Synchronous motors
Thermal analysis
Cooling design
cooling performance investigation
permanent magnet (PM) traction motor
thermal management
Language
ISSN
0018-9464
1941-0069
Abstract
The conventional mechanical design approach of cooling jackets serves the goal of heat dissipation to keep motor temperature below the maximum allowable limit for thermal protection. However, the desired motor performance cannot be effectively achieved by this approach since it only employs heat transfer mechanism. Therefore, a detailed algorithm is developed to provide a constructive cooling design process to achieve the desired performance of a permanent magnet (PM) traction motor. In the preprocessing stage, a two-way electromagnetic (EM) and thermal co-analysis method is developed for preinvestigation of motor temperature and torque to set the goal for the cooling requirement. In the solver, a shape and size optimization method is utilized to get the optimal cooling design for fulfilling the requirement. Further, a multiphysics finite-element analysis model is developed for structural optimization to ensure safe minimal weight of cooling design for the improvement in torque and power density. In the validation step, unlike using only computational fluid dynamics (CFD) to predict motor temperature, a two-way coupling of EM and CFD model is utilized to ensure the design goals of both torque and temperature for several operating conditions. Finally, the design optimization of a cooling jacket for an interior PM synchronous motor is conducted by implementing this algorithm.