Innovative Cooling and Thermal Management Solutions for Electrical Machines
A special issue of Machines (ISSN 2075-1702). This special issue belongs to the section "Electrical Machines and Drives".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 July 2024 | Viewed by 652
Special Issue Editor
Interests: aircraft environmental control and thermal management; enhanced heat exchange technology and applications; new refrigeration technology and applications; gas-liquid-solid phase conversion thermal technology
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Electrical machines play a pivotal role in various domains such as aerospace, electric vehicles, robotics, compressors, and others. As the output power of electrical machines continues to escalate, their thermal load also intensifies, necessitating efficient cooling and thermal management solutions to regulate internal temperature and ensure optimal output efficiency, reliability, and service life. Currently employed in practical applications are primarily air and liquid cooling methods for cooling electrical machines. Researchers have focused on optimizing the flow channel structure, enhancing heat transfer capabilities, and integrating them with electrical machines. However, it is foreseeable that these single-phase heat transfer technologies will struggle to meet the increasing heat dissipation demands of electrical machines. Leveraging phase change heat transfer technologies involving vapor–liquid and solid–liquid transformations offer a promising solution for designing and developing new cooling structures and systems. Furthermore, with rapid advancements in artificial intelligence technology, integration into cooling optimization schemes holds great potential for significantly improving optimization outcomes.
This Special Issue aims to present recent advances and technologies in the field of cooling and thermal management solutions for electrical machines. Topics include, but are not limited to:
- Electrical machines;
- Cooling and thermal management;
- Output efficiency and reliability;
- Single-phase heat transfer;
- Two-phase heat transfer;
- Heat transfer enhancement;
- Design and optimization;
- Artificial intelligence;
- Industrial applications.
Dr. Yu Xu
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- electrical machine
- electrical motor
- cooling
- thermal management
- heat transfer
- two-phase
- artificial intelligence
