Experimental and numerical studies of arc restrikes in low-voltage circuit breakers

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 954-960

  Fiévet, Christian ^a   Barrault, Michel ^a   Chévrier, Pierre ^a   Petit, Pascale ^a  

^a SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC   (France)

Author keywords

Gas temperature measurement; Hydrodynamic modeling

Indexed keywords

CIRCUIT BREAKING ARCS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CURRENT DENSITY; HYDRODYNAMICS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

ARC RESTRIKES; LOW VOLTAGE CIRCUIT BREAKERS;

ELECTRIC CIRCUIT BREAKERS;

EID: 0031246326     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/27.649604     Document Type: Article

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