2-D Transient Temperature Field Simulation of Oil-immersed Transformer Based on Hybrid Method[J]. High voltageapparatus, 2019, 55(4): 82-89. DOI: 10.13296/j.1001-1609.hva.2019.04.012.
2-D Transient Temperature Field Simulation of Oil-immersed Transformer Based on Hybrid Method
The temperature rise of oil-immersed power transformer is a vital factor that affects its performance. In this paper
a multi-physical field calculation method based on hybrid method is presented for obtaining the temperature distribution in the power transformer. In view of the strong coupling between thermal and fluid field
the influence of the temperature on the physical parameters of the material is considered by the proposed hybrid method. The velocity distribution is calculated firstly by solving the governing equation of fluid field used the upwind finite volume method. Then
the upwind finite element method is used to obtain the temperature distribution of thermal field. The fluid and thermal field are solved iteratively
and finally
the transient and the steady-state temperature field of the transformer are obtained during its starting period. To verify the validity of the proposed method
a two-dimensional simplified model of converter transformer has been adopted. The proposed multi-physical field method is applied to calculate the steady-state temperature distribution of converter transformer under ambient temperature
and the result of the proposed method is compared with software Comosol. It shows that the thermal distribution computed by the proposed method is in very good agreement with the results calculated by the commercial software Comosol
which proves the accuracy and validity of the proposed method. Based on the validity of the proposed algorithm
the transient temperature distribution of converter transformer during its starting period is analyzed under ambient temperature. The analysis results can be provided as references for engineering practice.