Computation of the self-induced magnetic field in circuit-breaker arcs

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 974-981

  Pellegrin, Hervé ^a   Trepanier, Jean Yves ^a   Camarero, Ricardo ^a   Zhang, Xu Dong ^a  

^a ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Circuit breakers; High pressure arcs; Magnetic forces; Modeling; Numerical simulation

Indexed keywords

CATHODES; CIRCUIT BREAKING ARCS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; FINITE VOLUME METHOD; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PLASMA FLOW; PLASMA INTERACTIONS;

EULER EQUATIONS; MAGNETIC FORCES;

ELECTRIC CIRCUIT BREAKERS;

EID: 0031245648     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/27.649609     Document Type: Article

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