Design and Material Optimization of Cooling Fins in Electric Motors

Abstract

This project is about a comparative study of different types of fins and with different types of materials. The main aim of this research is to optimize the cooling rate of the fin in electric motors. Since now a day’s the fossil fuels are deteriorating gradually, so the automobile industry is changing to E-Vehicles. In EV’s the motor is the very important part, if that motor has a best design for fins to eliminate heat from the motor then it will be helpful for the efficient running of the vehicle. So, to resolve the heat transfer problem various designs of motor fins are modeled in 3-D modeling software (DSS-Solidworks) and analyzed by the analysis software (Ansys-2016) for their heat transfer properties. To improve the results even more a research has been done and by the help of various research paper study, the materials are selected. Those materials are first applied to the 3 basic verities of the fins. Then by the results we can able to find out the best material among the chosen 3 materials. Then to improve the results even more another 3 hybrid models are created and analyzed by applying only the best material which was found and find out the best design with the best material.