Scaling Laws for Gas-Blast Circuit-Breaker Arcs During the High Current Phase

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 1980, Pages 357-362

  Fang, M T C ^a   Ramakrishnan, S ^b   Messerle, H K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC ARCS; FLOW OF FLUIDS - BOUNDARY LAYER - NOZZLES;

SCALING LAWS;

ELECTRIC CIRCUIT BREAKERS;

EID: 0019246810     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: 19399375     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPS.1980.4317340     Document Type: Article

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