Thermal Management
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The Thermal Management page is a comprehensive repository for resources on maintaining optimal temperature control within electric vehicles. This page offers reports, research papers, and technical documents focused on innovations in battery cooling systems, HVAC solutions, and overall vehicle thermal efficiency. Whether you are investigating the latest cooling technologies or the impact of temperature control on vehicle performance and battery longevity, these resources provide critical knowledge to support advancements in EV thermal management.
Thermal Management System Strategies, Modelling and Simulation
This report provides a comprehensive overview of thermal management system strategies, modeling, and simulation within the RHODaS project.
It focuses on detailing the thermal interface between inverters and cooling systems, exploring estimated junction temperatures, and analysing the potential impacts of design choices on equivalent thermal resistance, as well as advanced 3D thermal and power loss modeling, employing Finite Element Analysis, with COMSOL Multiphysics playing a crucial role in heatsink design. Fundamental simulations cover aspects like liquid-cooled heatsink design and sensitivity studies.
Automotive R&D Teams, Control System Designers, HVAC Automotive Professionals, Researchers in Thermal Management, Simulation and Modelling Professionals, Thermal Systems Engineers
Computational Fluid Dynamics, COMSOL Multiphysics, Cooling Systems, E-Volve Cluster, Finite Element Analysis, Heatsink Design, RHODaS, Thermal Interface, Thermal Management System
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Rhodas pdf file, Zenodo
A Top-Side Cooled Package to Best Dissipate Heat
In recent years, semiconductor manufacturers have developed power component packages which use a different thermal management approach - instead of placing the thermal pad on the bottom of a device pointing towards the PCB, the exposed metal pad is placed on the top side of the device. It has been shown that top-side cooling (TSC) can reduce the overall thermal resistance by 20% - 30% compared to bottom side cooling (BSC), making the process of heat extraction much simpler and consequently less expensive to implement. Ideas & Motion, a company which develops power inverters for electric vehicle (EV) powertrains, conducted simulations as part of the HiPE EU-funded project to assess the thermal performance of TSC packages from three leading semiconductor manufacturers.
Automotive Component Manufacturers, Electric Vehicle Manufacturers, Thermal Management Researchers, Thermal Systems Engineers
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