A MATLAB based approach for electro-thermal design of power converters

Konferenz: CIPS 2010 - 6th International Conference on Integrated Power Electronics Systems
16.03.2010 - 18.03.2010 in Nuremberg, Germany

Tagungsband: CIPS 2010

Seiten: 5Sprache: EnglischTyp: PDF

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Autoren:
Cova, Paolo; Bernardoni, Mirko (University of Parma, Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’Informazione, Viale G. P. Usberti, 181/A, Parma, Italy)

Inhalt:
Fast Lumped Element Network (LEN) based thermal modeling for power converters is presented. Such an approach is developed in the MATLAB-Simulink ambient by the PLECS tool, to obtain an unique model including both electrical and thermal dynamics, which can be useful in determining the entire system behavior at an early design stage. Its use applied to a simple power converter is shown as an example. Comparison with FEM analysis is presented.