Coupled Electromagnetic and Thermal Field Modeling of a Laboratory Busbar System

The paper presents coupled electromagnetic and
thermal field analysis of busbar system (of rectangular cross-section
geometry) submitted to short circuit conditions. The laboratory model
was validated against both analytical solution and experimental
observations. The considered problem required the computation of
the detailed distribution of the power losses and the heat transfer
modes. In this electromagnetic and thermal analysis, different
definitions of electric busbar heating were considered and compared.
The busbar system is a three phase one and consists of aluminum,
painted aluminum and copper busbar. The solution to the coupled
field problem is obtained using the finite element method and the
QuickField™ program. Experiments have been carried out using two
different approaches and compared with computed results.

• Tatyana R. Radeva
• Ivan S. Yatchev
• Dimitar N. Karastoyanov
• Nikolay I. Stoimenov
• Stanislav D. Gyoshev

• Busbar system
• coupled problems
• finite element method
• short-circuit currents.

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