Analysis of a liquid metal current limiter

IEEE Transactions on Components and Packaging Technologies

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 572-577

  Wu, Huarn ^a   Li, Xiaohui ^a   Zhang, Min ^b   Stade, D ^c   Schau, H ^c  

^a NANJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c ILMENAU UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Current limiters; Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD); Multiphysics simulation

Indexed keywords

3-D FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; CURRENT LIMITERS; FAULT CURRENT LIMITER; FAULT CURRENTS; LIQUID METAL CURRENT LIMITER; LOW-VOLTAGE POWER SYSTEMS; MAGNETIC FORCE; MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMIC (MHD); MULTIPHYSICS SIMULATION; MULTIPHYSICS SIMULATIONS; SINGLE-PHASE POWER;

ELECTRIC FAULT CURRENTS; EXPERIMENTS; FLUID DYNAMICS; LIMITERS; LIQUID METALS; MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS; PINCH EFFECT;

METAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 70349232211     PISSN: 15213331     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCAPT.2009.2024157     Document Type: Article

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