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AIR FLOW ANALYSIS FOR ELECTRICAL MOTOR'S COOLING SYSTEM WITH AUTODESK SIMULATION CFD 2013 PROGRAM Cover

AIR FLOW ANALYSIS FOR ELECTRICAL MOTOR'S COOLING SYSTEM WITH AUTODESK SIMULATION CFD 2013 PROGRAM

Open Access
|Dec 2013

Abstract

In the article the analysis of airflow through electrical motor was conducted and optimal design solution was chosen in order to increase cooling efficiency. Numerical simulations allow to determine the areas of temperature occurrence which may have destructive influence on electrical motor parts and on its safe operation. The numerical calculations of airflow was carried out for two different types of fans as well as for two different housings. An analysis of the construction was carried out by CFD method using Autodesk Simulation CFD 2013. Community results of the analysis, we can conclude that the better solution for machines with fixed direction of rotation is to use instead of the radial the axial fan. For axial fan the motor temperature in the same condition was lower by about 5°C.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ama-2013-0016 | Journal eISSN: 2300-5319 | Journal ISSN: 1898-4088
Language: English
Page range: 89 - 92
Published on: Dec 31, 2013
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 4 issues per year

© 2013 Jerzy Madej, Bartłomiej Będkowski, published by Bialystok University of Technology
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons License.