The invention relates to a method for setting a high-pressure high-power
thyristor electrothermic model and a simulating method. In the invention, first a thermal impedance model of a
thyristor is calculated and set according to the
finite element method, and a Foster network thermal impedance model is expressed by the identical transformation, subsequently a
thyristor equivalent electric model is set by using the mathematical method. The loss Pave(t) is determined by the switch-on
forward voltage drop Vtm and the working current IA, an electrothermic model of the thyristor is set by connecting the relation of the variants such as the switch-on
forward voltage drop Vtm, the working current IA, the loss Pave(t), the
junction temperature TJ and the like, then the
simulation is conducted on a Pspice
software. The model of the invention contains a
thermodynamics and electrics model, which can provides the dynamic relationship between the heating parameters and the electric parameters, can be used for simulating the transient and steady
junction temperature change and predicting whether the thyristor works in the safe area, also used for insulating the
junction temperature change under the sine semi-wave surge current surge and predicting whether the thyristor fail.