Title :
CFD electric motor external fan system validation
Author :
Cezário, Cassiano Antunes ; Oliveira, Amir Antônio Martins
Author_Institution :
Res. & Dev. of Product Dept., WEG Equipamentos Eletricos - Motores
Abstract :
This work presents the development of an experimental device that was designed and developed in order to consider a number of geometric simplifications aiming at the validation of a CFD model applied to the external fan system of an electric motor. The geometry of the experimental device is transposed to CFD software and the numeric results are compared with the previously obtained experimental data of airspeed and power consumption of the fan system. The obtained results present good correlation between experimental and numerical data.
Keywords :
computational fluid dynamics; electric machine CAD; electric motors; fans; numerical analysis; CFD electric motor; external fan system validation; geometric simplifications; Computational fluid dynamics; Electric motors;
Conference_Titel :
Electrical Machines, 2008. ICEM 2008. 18th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Vilamoura
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1735-3
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1736-0
DOI :
10.1109/ICELMACH.2008.4800201