28th Congress of the International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, 23 - 28 September 2012, Brisbane, Australia
Paper ICAS 2012-6.6.3


A METHOD FOR THE EVALUATION OF ELECTROMECHANICAL ACTUATOR SYSTEMS USING EXERGY

A. Lowe, J. -H. Lewe, D. Mavris, S. -T. Lee*
Georgia Inst. of Technology, USA; *Hanwha Corporation, Korea

Keywords: electromechanical actuator, exergy, thermal management

A methodology for the modeling and evaluation of electromechanical actuation (EMA) systems is presented. This methodology facilitates the evaluation of different EMA system architectures by allowing different technologies to easily be integrated into the modeling environment and using a common energy-based metric to compare architectures.


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