Keynote Talk: How Nexans Increases the Cost-Effectiveness of Cable Assets Using Multiphysics Simulation

Adrien Charmetant
Nexans Research Center, France
Published in 2018

Nexans provides an extensive range of cable solutions to worldwide actors of the electricity value chain, from generation to consumption. Recent evolutions in the global electricity market, such as the targets for increasing the share of renewable energy and decreasing energy consumption, require further optimization of cable assets. This talk will present how combining heat transfer, electric field, magnetic field, and fluid dynamics calculations in COMSOL Multiphysics® opens new perspectives to further increase the cost-effectiveness and reliability of complex cable systems.