An experimentally verified hybrid Cassie-Mayr electric arc model for power electronics simulations

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 429-436

  Tseng, King Jet ^a,b   Wang, Yaoming ^b   Vilathgamuwa, D Mahinda ^b  

^a IEEE   (Singapore)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Arc modeling; Arc plasma; Power electronic simulation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED NETWORK ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC ARCS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

CASSIE-MAYR ELECTRIC ARCS; NODAL ANALYSIS METHOD; SOFTWARE PACKAGE SABER;

POWER ELECTRONICS;

EID: 0031142704     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/63.575670     Document Type: Article

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