Field optimization of three dimensional high voltage equipment

• Published in: 11th International Symposium on High-Voltage Engineering (ISH 99) pp. 2.75.P6 - 2.78.P6
• Main Author: Trinitis, C
• Format: Conference Proceeding Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London IEE 1999
• Subjects: Applied sciences; Computer aided design; Computer science; control theory; systems; Design; Electric and magnetic fields; Electrical engineering. Electrical power engineering; Exact sciences and technology; Power apparatus and electric machines; Power engineering computing; Software; high voltage engineering; three dimensional electric field calculation program; CAD; three dimensional high voltage equipment; numerical optimization algorithm; power engineering computing; high-voltage engineering; electric fields; optimisation; optimal electric field strength distribution; parametric CAD modelling system; field optimization; power apparatus; numerical field calculation parallelisation; Electric field; Field distribution; High voltage; Electrical equipment; Parallel processing; Computer aided design; Optimization
• ISBN: 0852967195; 9780852967195
• ISSN: 0537-9989
• DOI: 10.1049/cp:19990599

The goal of finding an optimal electric field strength distribution for arbitrary three dimensional problems can be achieved by utilizing a parametric CAD modelling system that needs to be coupled with a three dimensional electric field calculation program. These components are to be linked with a numerical optimization algorithm. The package obtained from these three components is then able to automatically optimize arbitrary three dimensional field problems in high voltage engineering. Since one of the bottlenecks in the optimization process mentioned above is the three dimensional electric field calculation, several methods for accelerating this process have been investigated. One of these methods, the parallelization of the numerical field calculation, is explained in this paper. A practical example which has been optimized using the tools described in this paper is introduced. (4 pages)