Thermal Performance of Mini Cooling Channels for High-Power Servo Motor with Non-Uniform Heat Dissipation

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  • 1. Institute of Precision Guidance and Control, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an 710072, China
    2. College of Petroleum Engineering, Xi’an Shiyou University, Xi’an 710065, China

Online published: 2023-11-28

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This study was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 52106112, 52007153) and Natural Science Basic Research Plan of Shaanxi Province in China (Program No. 2022JM-185).

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Science Press, Institute of Engineering Thermophysics, CAS and Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature 2023

Abstract

High-power servo motor is widely employed as a necessary actuator in flight vehicles. The urgent problem to be solved restraining the working performance of servo motor is no longer the torque and power, but the heat dissipation capability under high-power working conditions, which may cause the overheat, even burn down of motor or other potential safety hazards. Therefore, a structure of mini cooling channels with appropriate channel density is designed in accordance with the non-uniform heat flux of servo motor in this paper. Combined with the regenerative cooling method, the cryogenic fuel supercritical methane is served as the coolant, which is easy to be obtained from the propulsion system, and the heat from the servo motor can be transported to the combustion for reusing. According to the actual working cases of servo motor, a numerical model is built to predict the thermal performance of cooling channels. In order to better represent the secondary flow of coolant in the cooling channels, especially the turbulent mixed flow in the manifold, the k-ε RNG model with enhanced wall treatment is employed resulting from its precise capacity to simulate the secondary and wall shear flow. On this basis, the heat transfer mechanism and thermal performance of cooling channels, as well as the influence of various heat flux ratios are investigated, which can offer an in-depth understanding of restraining excessive temperature rise and non-uniformity distribution of the servo motor. By the calculation results, it can be concluded that under the adjustment of the channel density according to the corresponding heat flux, the positive role of the appropriate channel density and the manifolds on heat transfer is manifested. Moreover, the maximum temperature difference of heating wall can be kept within an acceptable range of the servo motor. The heat transfer coefficient in the manifold is nearly 2–4 times higher compared with that in the straight cooling channels. The effect of buoyancy force cannot be neglected even in the manifold with turbulent mixed flow, and the pattern of heat transfer is mixed convection one in all the flow regions. The thermal resistance R and overall Nusselt number Nu are affected remarkably by all the operation parameters studied in the paper, except the pressure, while the overall thermal performance coefficient η demonstrates differently. The strong impact of heat flux ratio is implied on thermal performance of the cooling channels. Higher heat flux ratio results in the stronger non-uniform temperature distribution. Meanwhile, only tiny temperature differences of the fluid and inner wall in manifolds among various heat flux ratios are demonstrated, resulting from the positive effect of mixture flow on heat transfer.

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WANG Tianhu, GAO Zhigang, BAI Junhua, WANG Zhiqiang, QIAO Keqiang, LI Peng . Thermal Performance of Mini Cooling Channels for High-Power Servo Motor with Non-Uniform Heat Dissipation[J]. Journal of Thermal Science, 2023 , 32(2) : 650 -661 . DOI: 10.1007/s11630-023-1761-7

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