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Publication date: 5 March 2018

Arnaud Baraston, Laurent Gerbaud and Jean-Luc Schanen

With the increasing number of onboard controlled static converters in aeronautics, methods to design lighter configurations are required. This study aims to help the designer…

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Purpose

With the increasing number of onboard controlled static converters in aeronautics, methods to design lighter configurations are required. This study aims to help the designer sizing optimal electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) filters and, moreover, finding optimal voltage levels and switching frequency, which have a great impact on the design and global mass of such converters.

Design/methodology/approach

Analytical models for capacitors, inductors and heatsink are settled. Using frequency modeling, EMC can be studied analytically. To deal with frequency and voltages variations, models of perturbations sources are developed. Concerning the problem of surveilling thousands of harmonics to check the whole frequency range of EMC standards in optimization, a strategy that drastically reduces the number of computations and has a good convergence is proposed.

Findings

The methods settled in the paper allow to optimize a controlled static converter with its EMC filters along with finding optimal switching frequency and voltage levels. A study on a three-phase rectifier reveals the importance of the switching frequency on converter design with EMC filters. A 28 per cent mass reduction is predicted by increasing the switching frequency from 10 to 30 kHz. The designed converters are verified by simulations.

Research limitations/implications

Investigating the voltage levels along with the switching frequency has not been achieved yet for static controlled converters with EMC constraints. The approach lacks experimental validations, but it is currently ongoing.

Originality/value

Dealing analytically with the changes of frequency or voltages in an EMC study is a new feature. The possibility to use deterministic algorithm is essential for dealing with the important number of constraints and the numerous interactions between all the parts of the problem, especially EMC.

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COMPEL - The international journal for computation and mathematics in electrical and electronic engineering, vol. 37 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0332-1649

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Publication date: 17 March 2016

Arnaud Baraston, Laurent Gerbaud, Vincent Reinbold, Thomas Boussey and Frédéric Wurtz

Multiphysical models are often useful for the design of electrical devices such as electrical machines. In this way, the modeling of thermal, magnetic and electrical phenomena by…

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Purpose

Multiphysical models are often useful for the design of electrical devices such as electrical machines. In this way, the modeling of thermal, magnetic and electrical phenomena by using an equivalent circuit approach is often used in sizing problems. The coupling of such models with other models is difficult to take into account, partly because it adds complexity to the process. The paper proposes an automatic modelling of thermal and magnetic aspects from an equivalent circuit approach, with its computation of gradients, using selectivity on the variables. Then, it discusses the coupling of various physical models, for the sizing by optimization algorithms. Sensibility analyses are discussed and the multiphysical approach is applied on a permanent magnet synchronous machine.

Design/methodology/approach

The paper allows one to describe thermal and magnetic models by equivalent circuits. Magnetic aspects are represented by reluctance networks and thermal aspects by thermal equivalent circuits. From circuit modelling and analytical equations, models are generated, coupled and translated into computational codes (Java, C), including the computation of their jacobians. To do so, model generators are used: CADES, Reluctool, Thermotool. The paper illustrates the modelling and automatic programming aspects with Thermotool. The generated codes are directly available for optimization algorithms. Then, the formulation of the coupling with other models is studied in the case of a multiphysical sizing by optimization of the Toyota PRIUS electrical motor.

Findings

A main specificity of the approach is the ability to easily deal with the selectivity of the inputs and outputs of the generated model according to the problem specifications, thus reducing drastically the size of the jacobian matrix and the computational complexity. Another specificity is the coupling of the models using analytical equations, possibly implicit equations.

Research limitations/implications

At the present time, the multiphysical modeling is considered only for static phenomena. However, this limit is not important for numerous sizing applications.

Originality/value

The analytical approach with the selectivity gives fast models, well-adapted for optimization. The use of model generators allows robust programming of the models and their jacobians. The automatic calculation of the gradients allows the use of determinist algorithms, such as SQP, well adapted to deal with numerous constraints.

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COMPEL - The international journal for computation and mathematics in electrical and electronic engineering , vol. 35 no. 3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0332-1649

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