Design Tools for Rapid Multidomain Virtual Prototyping of Power Electronic Systems

Evans, Paul L.; Castellazzi, Alberto; Johnson, C. Mark

Abstract

The need for multidisciplinary virtual prototyping in power electronics has been well established, however, design tools capable of facilitating a rapid iterative virtual design process do not exist. A key challenge in developing such tools is identifying and developing modeling techniques which can account for 3-D geometrical design choices without unduly affecting simulation speed. This challenge has been addressed in this paper using model order reduction techniques and a prototype power electronic design tool incorporating these techniques is presented. A relevant electrothermal power module design example is then used to demonstrate the performance of the software and model order reduction techniques. Five design iterations can be evaluated, using 3-D inductive and thermal models, under typical operating and start-up conditions on a desktop PC in less than 15 min. The results are validated experimentally for both thermal and electrical domains.

Citation

Evans, P. L., Castellazzi, A., & Johnson, C. M. (2016). Design Tools for Rapid Multidomain Virtual Prototyping of Power Electronic Systems. IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, 31(3), 2443-2455. https://doi.org/10.1109/TPEL.2015.2437793

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: May 8, 2015
• Online Publication Date: May 25, 2015
• Publication Date: Mar 1, 2016
• Deposit Date: May 17, 2016
• Publicly Available Date: May 17, 2016
• Journal: IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics
• Print ISSN: 0885-8993
• Electronic ISSN: 1941-0107
• Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 31
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 2443-2455
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/TPEL.2015.2437793
• Keywords: Modeling; Power electronics; Computer aided analysis; Design automation; Electromagnetic analysis; Finite difference analysis; Power converter; Time domain analysis
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/774270
• Publisher URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TPEL.2015.2437793
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• Contract Date: May 17, 2016