Computer-aided power transformer design: a short review

Designing power transformers and magnetic components is well recognized as a highly complicated process because of the large number of design variables, component alternatives and mutual dependencies that have to be considered. Therefore, today's power magnetic design processes heavily utilise computers, to shorten the development cycle and save the costs. A significant number of studies have been conducted in the area of transformer design synthesis and analysis, with fundamental Computer-Aided Engineering (CAE) techniques being frequently employed. This paper presents an overview of these studies, identifying their relationships with CAE theories, highlighting the CAE techniques that have been used, and investigating their potential and limitations.