Optimizing Power Converters: How Simulation Helps You Design Best-in-Class Power Electronics

Power converter design requires engineers to understand and analyze how the integrated system requirements are met when electrical subsystem design choices are made. From semiconductor selection to filter design, there are many parameters that affect power electronics performance, cost, and efficiency. The multiple options must be analyzed against each other to understand the best way to achieve component and system level goals. By its very nature, this analysis is a multiphysics problem, as electrical and thermal performance goals drive trade-offs between subsystems and design teams. This increase in complexity requires virtual analysis to streamline analysis and design selection in a time-efficient manner that is uniquely possible with the right tools. This 60-minute webinar will walk through an integrated, communicative approach to power electronics cooling design solutions and subsystem design.

Topics include:

• Integrating cooling system design analysis into power converter optimization – instead of doing parallel thermal and electrical analysis
• How to convert CAD to calibrated cooling module images
• How thermal analysis results can be used within the pre-design optimization of the electrical system under multiple operating conditions
• The benefits of electro-thermal optimization for power electronics at the component and system level
• How electro-thermal optimization can be used directly to achieve program goals and objectives

Audience Q&A follows the technical presentation.

Speaker:

Joseph Solomon, Solutions Consultant, Gamma Technologies

Joseph Solomon is a solutions consultant at Gamma Technologies (GT), where he focuses on electrification solutions. It assists GT users in battery design, electronic propulsion system analysis, thermal management and control development. Joseph holds an MSc in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Michigan, where he focused on Li-ion battery performance with an electrochemical mechanical model using GT-AutoLion.

Moderator:

Amanda Hosey, Editor, SAE Media Group

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