Pavan Kumar Vaddi

Physics-Based Dynamic Modeling of Hydro Generator Cooling System Using Plant Data, Empirical Heat Transfer Correlations and Reduced Parameter Estimation

Hydro-generator cooling arrays are sparsely instrumented, limiting estimation of heat-exchanger (HX) parameters from plant data for thermal modeling. This study develops and validates a 48-state quasi-linear parameter-varying (qLPV) gray-box model for twelve fin-and-tube air-to-w...