9.Turbulence and Magnetic Field Calculations in英文资料.pdf

936 IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON PLASMA SCIENCE, VOL. 40, NO. 3, MARCH 2012 Turbulence and Magnetic Field Calculations in High-Voltage Circuit Breakers Jean-Jacques Gonzalez, Pierre Freton, Frank Reichert, and Dannet Randrianarivao Abstract—In high-voltage circuit breakers (HVCBs), the rep- “heating volume” which generates a reverse flow that blows out resentation of convection is essential to provide a satisfactory the arc at around current zero. Depending on the blow gas pres- description of the pressure increase in the heating volume or sure, blow gas conditions, and the transient recovery voltage thermal expansion chamber. The plasma flow is mainly governed that becomes established between the contacts, the arc can be by Lorentz forces and turbulence effects. The Lorentz forces depend on the self-induced magnetic field which can be calculated interrupted or can reignite before it is completely interrupted. by several approaches. A mixing formulation based on resolving To make optimum use of the self-blast mechanism, the arc the potential vectors and a Biot–Savart integral for the boundary behavior must be fully understood at all current phases: the condition is applied. The difference between this formulation high-current phase (ablation arc), the phase shortly before and a null flux boundary condition is illustrated. The mixing formulation gives similar results to the use of Biot–Savart over current zero (axial blown arc), the phase around current zero the entire domain but is much less time consuming. To represent (thermal interruption), a