Modelling of a Heavy-Current Intensively Blasted Electric Arc at Atmospheric Pressure

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216305%3A26220%2F21%3APU141586" target="_blank" >RIV/00216305:26220/21:PU141586 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6595/ac1dee" target="_blank" >https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6595/ac1dee</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1361-6595/ac1dee" target="_blank" >10.1088/1361-6595/ac1dee</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Modelling of a Heavy-Current Intensively Blasted Electric Arc at Atmospheric Pressure

Original language description

The paper deals with intensively blasted electric arc burning in argon in a cylindrical channel of a designed experimental arc heater. The measured values of the arc current, the total voltage between a tungsten cathode and a grounded copper anode, the argon flow rate, and the water flow rates and temperature increments in individual parts of the arc heater characterize the operational conditions, but the parameters of the arc inside remain hidden. The simplified mathematical model has been designed to reveal the arc behavior in the arc heater channel, namely the arc radius and arc temperature development. The model is based on the energy and mass conservation laws and Ohm’s law and utilizes theoretically calculated transport and thermodynamic properties of argon altogether with the measured results as input data. Some simplifying assumptions are applied. A two-zone arrangement with a hot arc zone in the middle and a cold zone near the channel wall is supposed. The arc radius development along the arc heater’s channel is described by Schlichting’s formula for a free beam. Such combinations of three characteristic values of exponent n_r, current density j_0 at the cathode tip, and arc temperature T_A(s) at the end of the near-cathode layer are sought to enable as close as possible accordance between the computed and experimental data. Thereafter, a slight tuning of these parameters is needed to avoid extreme values of electric field intensity and temperature oscillations near the cathode while not to substantially worsen the reached agreement of measured and computed values. The functionality of the model is demonstrated using four typical sets of experimental data.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

20201 - Electrical and electronic engineering

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

PLASMA SOURCES SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

ISSN

0963-0252

e-ISSN

1361-6595

Volume of the periodical

30

Issue of the periodical within the volume

9

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

13

Pages from-to

1-13

UT code for WoS article

000695276400001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85115966681