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important aspect. Homogeneous regions allow the easy requires less memory.
description of the windings characteristics (number of The magnetising reactances at the primary and secondary
turns, material, filling factor…). Some advanced models can be computed thanks to the values of voltages and the
in Flux permit the evaluatation of skin and proximity result of the reactive power in the domain. The magnetising
effects in the coils without representing each wire. This current is also available to measure in the circuit. A Bertotti
reduces the time and memory needed for the simulations model evaluates the iron losses in every magnetic region. The
and ensures accurate results. following table details some of these results.
Thanks to dedicated regions such as laminated region,
thin conducting and impedance surface, it is possible to Magnetising Reactance at the primary
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model the skin effect in conductive parts (transformer Xm1
tank, frames, shunt fastening) up to several MHz. For Magnetising Reactance at the
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secondary Xm2
so that the designer does not need to represent and mesh
every thin layer of this region: the anisotropy is considered Global Iron Losses 37.9 kW
during the solving.
In addition, a model of hysteresis can increase the accuracy
of the iron losses computation and deals with remanence Table 1 Results from the no load test
issues for transient aspects.
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physical parameters in order to consider various transformers.
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Table 3 Results from the inrush current test
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