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Fluid flow, thermal engineering, experiments, electromagnetics

design and performance validation of a heating system.

In order to validate cooling systems experimentally, it is sometimes necessary to build a representative heating system. As the heating needs to be 26 kW on a piece smaller than an AA battery, this is a challenge. The resulting induction heating system was designed using COMSOL Multiphysics, and experimentally validated to work and capable of testing cooling flow.

Cooling of a heated coil

validating cooling systems.

1/8 of the coil geometry is modelled using COMSOL Multiphysics. The frequency used to generate the magnetic fields needs to be carefully chosen in order to achieve a sufficiently uniform current distribution in the work piece, but at the same time minimizing the required total input power (40 kW, including 14 kW dissipation in the coil).

An accurate Computational Electromagnetics model was applied to determine the most suitable heating parameters. In order to achieve sufficient cooling, pressurized water is pumped into both sides of the coil and leaves in the middle, reducing the pressure drop. Thereby, the mass flow can be sufficiently large without decreasing the electrical inductance. The geometry of the water-cooling is modelled using Computational Fluid Dynamics. The minimal required mass flow to avoid boiling was determined.

coupled electromagnetic and heat analysis of a coil using comsol multiphysics

“The challenge is always: to reach a conclusion with as little effort as possible. When a simple model can provide an answer to a complex question, this is very satisfying.”

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