TY - JOUR A1 - Kral, Christian A1 - Haumer, Anton A1 - Haigis, Matthias A1 - Lang, Hermann A1 - Kapeller, Hansjörg T1 - Comparison of a CFD Analysis and a Thermal Equivalent Circuit Model of a TEFC Induction Machine With Measurements JF - IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion N2 - For a totally enclosed fan-cooled induction machine, two methods of numerical analysis are compared with measurements. The first numerical method is based on computational fluid dynamics (CFDs) and the second one uses a thermal equivalent circuit (TEC). For the analysis based on CFD, a 3-D induction machine including housing is modeled. The numeric solution of the flow equations is determined for stationary temperature distributions. For the TEC, a discretized one-and-a-half-dimensional model of the induction machine is considered. With the TEC model, stationary and transient operating conditions can be simulated. Measurement results are determined by iron-copper-nickel sensors embedded in the stator winding and the housing, as well as by an IR sensor for measuring the rotor temperature. With these measurement signals, stationary and transient operating conditions can be analyzed. For stationary operating conditions, additionally, the housing temperatures are determined by an IR camera. The investigated simulation and measurement methods reveal different local and global temperatures, and thus, only certain aspects and characteristics of the obtained temperatures can be compared. Nevertheless, certain conclusions can be drawn from comparing these aspects considering the actual restrictions of each of the applied methods. KW - asynchronous machines KW - computational fluid dynamics KW - electric sensing devices KW - Fluid flow KW - induction machines KW - numerical analysis KW - simulation KW - temperature Y1 - 2009 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1109/TEC.2009.2025428 SN - 0885-8969 VL - 24 IS - 4 SP - 809 EP - 818 PB - IEEE ER -