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Thermal Feedback Blocks represent an efficient means to perform thermal and electrothermal analyses of power converters, for which the adoption of strategies relying on 3-D numerical tools is too onerous or even impossible. In this work, we describe a RC-based thermal network extracted with a model-order reduction procedure improving the conventional Foster and Cauer solutions, which is used for the study of a DC/DC boost converter. The accuracy of the proposed approach is verified by comparing: (i) the output of purely-thermal simulations with those obtained through a commercial software based on the finite-element method, and (ii) electrothermal simulation results with measurements.
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Catalano, A.P. et al. (2019). Model-Order Reduction Procedure for Fast Dynamic Electrothermal Simulation of Power Converters. In: De Gloria, A. (eds) Applications in Electronics Pervading Industry, Environment and Society. ApplePies 2017. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 512. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93082-4_11
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