ISSN Online: 2379-1748
ISBN Flash Drive: 978-1-56700-472-4
ISBN Online: 978-1-56700-471-7
3rd Thermal and Fluids Engineering Conference (TFEC)
THERMAL ANALYSIS OF POWER ELECTRONIC BUILDING BLOCK-BASED CONVERTER ARRAY
Аннотация
Power Electronic Building Blocks (PEBBs) have been introduced to take advantage of the similarities in
power electronic topologies to increase efficiency and to decrease cost and maintenance. Parameters such
as reliability, power capacity and packaging density can be adversely affected by elevated temperatures in
compact electronic packing. In this work, a sharp-interface immersed-boundary flow simulation technique
is employed to study the heat distribution in different PEBB array configurations foran effective thermal
management solution. The study focuses on the external temperature and flow fields of the PEBB array
where a 100kW power block with 98% conversion efficiency built with SiC technology is considered as a
building block. The flow field and temperature field around the array is calculated and a relation between
gap width and Nusselt number is determined from the flow and temperature field results. It has been shown
that the geometrical and kinematic parameters of the system play a crucial in selection of a practical thermal
management technique.