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전기자동차 모터의 채널 형상에 따른 냉각 성능 연구

A Study on Cooling Performance of Electric Vehicle Motor for Different Cooling Channel Shapes

Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering 2021;38(6):417-425.
Published online: June 1, 2021

1 대구가톨릭대학교 기계자동차공학부

2 성균관대학교 대학원 기계공학과

1 School of Mechanical and Automotive Engineering, Catholic University of Daegu

2 Graduate School of Mechanical Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University

#E-mail: dlee@cu.ac.kr, TEL: +82-53-850-2717
• Received: March 12, 2021   • Revised: April 22, 2021   • Accepted: April 28, 2021

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A Study on Cooling Performance of Electric Vehicle Motor for Different Cooling Channel Shapes
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Fig. 1 Actual shape of electric motor model N
Fig. 2 Completed CATIA rendering of electric motor geometry
Fig. 3 Imported geometries of cooling channel at three different cases
Fig. 4 Grid dependency test
Fig. 5 Grid conditions of electric motor model N
Fig. 6 Grid conditions of cooling channel
Fig. 7 Velocity vectors at three different cases of cooling channel (Ethylene glycol)
Fig. 8 Temperature contours at three different cases of cooling channel (Ethylene glycol)
Fig. 9 Temperature contours at three different cases of coil surface
Fig. 10 Temperature contours of diagonal position (R+) on the coil surface with maximum temperature deviation at three different cases of coil surface
Fig. 11 Temperature deviation of coil surface vs. dimensionless local positions of coil surface at three cases
Fig. 12 Nusselt number vs. Reynolds number (ReR) at three different cases of coil surface
A Study on Cooling Performance of Electric Vehicle Motor for Different Cooling Channel Shapes

Physical dimensions of electric motor model N

Diameter internal /
external (D) [mm]
Height (H)
[mm]
EA
Housing 199.4/235.4 260 1
Shaft 32/50 175 1
Rotor 50/132 175 1
Stator 133.4/199.4 175 1
Width (L)
[mm]
Thickness (T)
[mm]
Height (H)
[mm]
EA
Magnet 12 5 175 16
16 3 16
Coil 20 6 48

Design boundary conditions

Inlet (Ethylene glycol) Mass flow rate [kg/s] 0.15
Temperature [oC] 65
Inlet (Air) Temperature [oC] 25
Outlet (Ethylene glycol) Pressure [Pa] 0
Outlet (Air) Pressure [Pa] 0
Coil Heat generation [W/m3] 1,000,000
Fluid material Air Incompressible
Ethylene glycol

Thermophysical property of material

Density
[kg/m3]
Thermal
conductivity
[W/m·oC]
Specific heat
[J/kg·oC]
Ethylene glycol 1,057 0.394 3,410
Viscosity [kg/m∙s] 0.00159
Housing 2,790 168 883
Stator and rotor 7,540 31 557
Coil 8,933 401 385
Magnet 7,500 7.5 410
Shaft 7,817 51.9 446

Total elements of electric motor assembly for grid dependency

Total elements Tmax [oC] Error [%]
5,748,135 135.72 1
8,560,615 135.50 0.8
10,475,418 135.25 0.4
13,812,874 134.72 0
16,694,415 134.60 0.1
19,323,298 134.50 0.15
23,554,945 134.44 0.2

Number of elements and nodes in cooling channel

Model N Case 1 Case 2
Elements 4,881,521 3,556,073 4,219,776
Nodes 1,627,068 1,152,407 1,602,150

Numerical data of temperature and heat transfer coefficient

Model N Case 1 Case 2
R+
[Normalized point]
TS
[oC]
h
[W/m2oC]
TS
[oC]
h
[W/m2oC]
TS
[oC]
h
[W/m2oC]
0 128 2,651.8 124 2,832.0 118 3,153.6
0.1 130 2,570.0 125 2,784.7 119 3,095.0
0.2 131 2,531.0 126 2,738.0 121 2,984.2
0.3 132 2,493.1 127 2,694.7 122 2,931.7
0.4 132 2,493.1 128 2,651.8 124 2,832.0
0.5 133 2,456.4 129 2,610.3 125 2,784.7
0.6 133 2,456.4 130 2,570.0 126 2,738.0
0.7 134 2,420.7 131 2,531.0 127 2,694.7
0.8 134 2,420.7 131 2,531.0 127 2,694.7
0.9 134 2,420.7 131 2,531.0 128 2,651.8
1 134 2,420.7 132 2,493.1 128 2,651.8
Table 1 Physical dimensions of electric motor model N
Table 2 Design boundary conditions
Table 3 Thermophysical property of material
Table 4 Total elements of electric motor assembly for grid dependency
Table 5 Number of elements and nodes in cooling channel
Table 6 Numerical data of temperature and heat transfer coefficient