Factors influencing the minimum arc sustaining electric field and associated current for a high-pressure-vortex-water-wall-arc lamp

IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 128-136

  Dawson, Francis P ^a   Yan, Wei ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Arc modeling; Rapid thermal processing; Voltage current characteristics; Vortex arc lamp

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRIC LAMPS; HIGH PRESSURE EFFECTS; VORTEX FLOW;

ASSOCIATED CURRENTS;

ELECTRIC ARCS;

EID: 0042020316     PISSN: 00939994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIA.2002.807215     Document Type: Article

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