A review on recent studies in the area of conjugate heat transfer modelling in transformers
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https://doi.org/10.17794/rgn.2026.1.14Keywords:
transformer, conjugate heat transfer, computational fluid dynamics, hot-spot temperatureAbstract
The exact position and the value of the hot-spot temperature in a transformer could be estimated by calculation using computational fluid dynamics. However, this approach requires the usage of significant computational resources. In this paper, a review on some recent investigations on this topic is made, focusing thereby primarily on the investigation in which the field distribution of the dependent variables is taken into consideration in a conjugate heat transfer problem. Still, the determination of the hot-spot temperature in the transformer is an open problem. Furthermore, a review on some fundamental aspects related to the heat transfer in the transformer was made, and some new approaches for the calculation of heat transfer in the transformer were proposed: smoothed-particle hydrodynamics, two-fluid model and the application of T-Flows computational software. Thus, the smoothed-particle hydrodynamics is found as a convenient approach, since it is traditionally related to laminar flow, that is present in the transformer; the two-fluid model significantly saves the computational resources, while the application of the computational software T-Flows is free and extremely powerful for computation of conjugate heat transfer and parallel computation. The conducted research defined the guidelines for the future work in numerical modelling of heat transfer in transformers.
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