Modelling And Computation Of Arc-Flow Interaction In Circuit-Breakers

International Journal of Computational Fluid Dynamics

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 1994, Pages 41-64

  Zhang, X D ^a   Tr£panier, J Y ^a   Camaarero, R ^a  

^a ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

arc modelling; Circuit breaker; finite volume method

Indexed keywords

EID: 84947680595     PISSN: 10618562     EISSN: 10290257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10618569408904483     Document Type: Article

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