Canonical Forms of Multi-Port Dynamic Thermal Networks

L. Codecasa (1) , D. d'Amore (1) , P. Maffezzoni (1)

1 Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione

In this paper it is shown that multi-port dynamic thermal networks admit four canonical representations which generalize the four canonical representations of passive lumped RC networks: Foster I and II canonical forms, Cauer I and Cauer II canonical forms. In particular the generalized Foster I canonical form is equivalent to the time-constant representation and the generalized Cauer I canonical form is a passive multi-conductor RC transmission line.

Mots clés: Multi-Port Thermal Network; Time-Constant Representation; Structure Function

Domaines: Science des matériaux [cond-mat.mtrl-sci]

L. Codecasa, D. d'Amore, P. Maffezzoni. Canonical Forms of Multi-Port Dynamic Thermal Networks. THERMINIC 2006, Sep 2006, Nice, France. pp.59-64. ⟨hal-00171391⟩