Electrothermal design of power inverters for automotive electric drivetrain systems using multidomain simulation
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Ilina, Olga; Voss, Leon; Heyd, Jean-Francois
- Source
- 2015 17th European Conference on Power Electronics and Applications (EPE'15 ECCE-Europe) Power Electronics and Applications (EPE'15 ECCE-Europe), 2015 17th European Conference on. :1-8 Sep, 2015
- Subject
- Aerospace
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Power, Energy and Industry Applications
Robotics and Control Systems
Transportation
Inverters
Load modeling
Cooling
Finite element analysis
Permanent magnet motors
Analytical models
Hysteresis motors
Power converters for EV
Electrical drive
Permanent magnet motor
Simulation
Time-Domain Analysis
Device characterisation
Modelling
- Language
Electrothermal design and optimization of motor drive systems for automotive electric drivetrain applications requires simulation methods to handle large differences in timescale and component modelling across multiple physical domains. This paper presents an approach based on model-reduction and co-simulation techniques using commercially available finite element method (FEM) and circuit/system simulation software. The methodology is demonstrated on an industrial prototype.