ARC MODELING IN-CIRCUIT BREAKERS - COUPLING BETWEEN ELECTROMAGNETICS AND FLUID-MECHANICS

Authors
VERITE JC BOUCHER T COMTE A DELALONDRE C SIMONIN O
Citation
Jc. Verite et al., ARC MODELING IN-CIRCUIT BREAKERS - COUPLING BETWEEN ELECTROMAGNETICS AND FLUID-MECHANICS, IEEE transactions on magnetics, 31(3), 1995, pp. 1843-1848
Citations number
6
Categorie Soggetti
Engineering, Eletrical & Electronic","Physics, Applied
Journal title
IEEE transactions on magnetics → ACNP
ISSN journal
00189464
Volume
31
Issue
3
Year of publication
1995
Part
1
Pages
1843 - 1848
Database
ISI
SICI code
0018-9464(1995)31:3<1843:AMIB-C>2.0.ZU;2-P
Abstract
Electrical arcs in circuit breakers are very complex phenomena involvi ng many aspects of Physics: fluid mechanics, radiative processes, elec tromagnetics... and their numerical modelling exhibits various couplin gs. After a physical analysis of the phenomena, showing which coupling s are important and which are not, we present axisymmetric simulations of arcs for two kinds of SF6 breakers, a two pressure breaker and a r otary arc breaker. We focus our study on the coupling between fluid me chanics and electromagnetics (influence of Laplace forces on the flow, stability).