Technique for determining the channel expansion rate at the stage of electrical breakdown using a grounded intercepting ring

A method is described that allows one to study the conductivity dynamics of a channel produced by explosion of a wire at the stage of electrical breakdown. Experimental data have been presented for the expansion rate of the conductivity channel in extended (up to 1.9 m long) arbitrarily shaped gapes that were produced by an exploding copper wire 90 µm in diameter. The initial stored energy and applied voltage were, respectively, 2.7–3.7 kJ and 8–10 kV. It has been shown that the expansion rate of the conductivity channel coincides with the propagation rate of a shock wave and is inversely proportional to the square root of its radius and propagation time. The radius of the shock wave is a linear function of the square root of its propagation rate. Experimental data are in satisfactory agreement with the calculated results obtained by Lin [18] in terms of the model of an intense shock wave. It has been shown that the diameter of the conductivity channel depends on the position of the trailing edge of the shock wave.     

铝丝电爆炸过程的光学诊断

采用100 m和40 m两种直径的铝丝,在不同放电电压下,通过分幅成像技术和光谱诊断方法,对铝丝电爆炸过程放电特性及放电等离子参数进行了诊断。实验研究表明:铝丝电爆炸过程中金属蒸气的二次击穿分为内部击穿和沿面击穿两种类型,较细的铝丝更容易发生内部击穿,发生内部击穿时产生的等离子体具有更好的空间均匀性和对称性,其放电过程具有更高的稳定性和可重复性。通过光谱诊断可知铝丝电爆炸等离子体电子温度在104 K量级,电子密度在1018 cm-3量级。     

真空及空气中金属丝电爆炸特性研究

开展了铝丝在真空和空气环境中的电爆炸特性研究.从金属丝电爆炸的电压、电流波形得到了金属丝内的沉积能量,并基于以上电参数特征分析了电爆炸产物的状态,获得了空气中铝丝电爆炸电流暂停时间随初级储能电容充电电压的变化规律.真空和空气中铝丝电爆炸在电压击穿时刻的沉积能量分别为2.8和6 eV/atom.采用波长为532 nm、亚纳秒激光探针对金属丝电爆炸物理过程开展了高时空分辨率的阴影和纹影诊断.阴影图像清晰地展示了不同气氛环境中高密度电爆炸产物的膨胀过程,根据光学诊断图像分析了高密度丝核沉积能量的结构和空气中铝丝电爆炸产生的激波的膨胀轨迹.真空和空气环境中高密度电爆炸产物的平均膨胀速度分别为1.9和3 km/s.基于实验数据和输运参数模型,估算了金属丝在电压击穿时刻的温度.     

Color Ultrafast Photography Study of a High-Current Discharge Initiated by Exploding a Short Wire in the Atmosphere

In this paper, we describe the ultrafast slit-scanning photography of light phenomena arising at the stage of the electrical breakdown in the atmosphere and in a channel initiated by a wire explosion. The characteristics and features of the photographic registration of the SFR-1 camera using color and spectrozonal negative aerial films sensitive in the visible and near infrared regions of the optical spectrum are presented. Using photograms in color, we were able to visualize small-scale inhomogeneities, a current-carrying channel and its “shell,” emissions of matter, and shock waves in the plasma. This technique made it possible to record a secondary shock wave in the plasma on the discharge axis during the explosion of short (length ≈15 mm) copper and nichrome wires with a diameter of 100–150 μm at a stored energy of ~100 J. At the moment of cumulation in the plasma, a “hot spot” with a minimum size of ~0.5 mm was formed on the discharge axis. It may be the source of narrow-beam coherent radiation with X-ray photon energies of 10–30 keV. The cumulation mechanism is discussed based on the regularities of the z-pinch phenomenon in a discharge initiated by a wire explosion.     

不同氩气气压下铝丝电爆炸的二次放电特性

搭建了RLC放电回路,研究了不同氩气气压下铝丝电爆炸二次放电特性。结果表明,随着气压的变化,电爆炸二次放电电压曲线呈U形。为了阐明氩气和铝蒸气在二次放电过程中的作用,利用光谱仪和高速分幅相机分别研究了二次放电等离子体的自辐射光谱特性和空间分布特性,发现:在低气压下氩气会参与放电,放电通道在铝蒸气表面;高气压下主要是铝蒸气放电,氩气基本不参与放电过程,放电通道在铝蒸气内部。     

Electrical explosion of conductors in the high-pressure zone of a convergent shock wave

The effect of the environmental pressure on the electrical explosion of a conductor (fine tungsten wire of diameter 30 μm) in an insulating liquid (distilled water) is studied. The pressure in the water is produced by exploding a multiwire array with the test conductor on its axis. Along with the experiment, the magnetohydrodynamic simulation of the explosion is carried out. It is shown that a high pressure produced in the explosion zone retards the electrical explosion of the conductor and, consequently, increases the explosion energy.     

电爆炸法制备纳米颗粒收集方法

金属丝电爆炸法制备纳米材料因其负载可大程度的过热和爆炸产物非平衡扩散过程得到了研究人员的广泛关注,认为是制备新型功能材料的有效方法。研究了不同收集方法对电爆炸法制备钛纳米颗粒的影响,并结合电学、光学、自辐射图像和形貌分析等诊断手段分析了不同方法下产物特性的成因。结果表明,钛丝电爆炸呈现周期型放电模式,产物通道在放电结束前（约40 μs）可膨胀至约1.7 cm处,此后有尖状突刺发展（波阵面后湍流区）,其速度约为55 m/s。为研究爆炸产物不同状态下纳米颗粒形成特性,使用了3种不同的产物收集方法,分别为:①在金属丝径向1.5 cm处放置硅片收集;②在腔体出口处预置滤网收集;③在金属丝一侧电极上通过定向喷涂收集。产物形貌表征结果表明,使用不同收集方法时产物特征存在明显差别,前2种方法爆炸产物先与介质混合再沉积于硅片,得到的产物分别为分散、链状的球状纳米颗粒和密集、堆叠的纳米颗粒团簇;后一种方法电爆炸产物具有较高的密度和定向速度（对硅片）,硅片以金属丝为轴心远近呈现出粉末状和烧结块状两种不同形式。     

电爆金属丝产生纳米粉体

建立了一台用于纳米粉体制备的电爆炸金属丝装置,它可以在不打开放电腔体情况下,依次电爆炸8根金属丝。对电爆炸金属丝进行了电路模拟,电路模拟结果表明,减小放电回路电感,或在保持电容器初始储能不变条件下,提高充电电压的同时减小储能电容可提高能量注入速率。为了理解金属蒸气形成纳米粉体的物理过程,利用马赫-曾德激光干涉方法,研究了丝爆后金属蒸气及等离子体的演化过程,得到了电爆丝的典型物理图像,观察到电爆丝中金属蒸气喷发的"热滞后"现象及金属蒸气的多次喷发现象。并利用电爆丝法制备了氮化钛、二氧化钛、铜氧化物和氧化锌的纳米粉体。     

介质环境对铜丝电爆炸制备纳米粉体的影响

为了探究介质环境对电爆炸制备纳米粉体的影响, 搭建了相应的电爆炸实验平台, 以铜丝为例分别在水和不同空气压力下开展了电爆炸制备纳米粉体实验.通过Rogoswki线圈和高压探头分别测试了电爆炸过程中的电流和电压波形图.通过电压、电流及能量沉积特征分析了电爆炸的基本过程以及介质环境在电爆炸过程中的作用.运用透射电子显微镜对爆炸产物进行了粒度分析.研究发现, 介质环境对于电爆炸过程的影响主要表现在汽化化阶段以后, 包括介质对蒸汽膨胀的抑制作用, 介质的电离对于铜丝表面击穿的影响以及其对高温金属蒸汽及等离子体的冷却作用.水中铜丝电爆炸能够制备局部均匀的小尺寸纳米粉体, 粒度多数集中在10–20 nm之间, 但粉体易积聚, 且整体粒度跨越较大.空气中制备的粉体分散良好, 符合对数正态分布, 基本上分布于20–100 nm之间, 平均粒度约为40 nm.     

爆炸丝线起爆装置研制及应用

为实现低密度粉末炸药的线同步起爆,研制了一种爆炸丝线起爆系统。储能装置采用3个低感电容并联,总容量为12μF;采用200kV/100kA场畸变开关作为放电开关;触发器产生1.5kV脉冲经过高压脉冲变压器输出幅度大于40kV的高压脉冲触发开关。在储能电容器充电40kV下,电爆炸丝负载上获得了73kA的脉冲电流。采用高速分幅相机观测了爆炸丝爆炸过程图像,结果表明爆炸丝膨胀过程的同步性较好。该线起爆系统已成功应用于爆炸膨胀环实验。     

氩气中铝丝电爆炸沉积能量对制备铝纳米粉体特性的影响

研制了基于脉冲电容器放电回路的亚微秒金属丝电爆炸纳米粉体制备实验平台,包括电爆炸过程电流和电压测量系统。利用透射电子显微镜(TEM)观察纳米粉体的形态与结构,并通过电镜统计观察法分析TEM图像得到纳米粉体的粒度大小及其分布。在氩气中电爆炸铝丝制备铝纳米粉体,通过改变电容器充电电压,即初始储能,实验研究沉积能量对铝纳米粉体特性的影响规律。结果表明:铝纳米粉体颗粒形态与结构主要由氩气气压的高低决定,与沉积能量基本无关。增大丝爆过程的沉积能量可显著缩小铝纳米粉体粒度分布范围,减小颗粒平均粒径,并有效地抑制纳米粉体中亚微米颗粒的形成。随着沉积能量E与氩气气压p比值(Ep-1)增大,铝纳米粉体颗粒平均粒径、最大粒径和粒径大于100 nm颗粒所占比例均呈指数函数单调减小。     

Microstructure of the current channel of an atmospheric-pressure diffuse discharge in a rod-plane air gap

The multichannel structure of the current channel of an atmospheric-pressure diffuse discharge excited in a 10-cm rod-plane air gap was investigated using the imprint technique. A voltage pulse with an amplitude of 240 kV, a duration of 180 ns, and a rise time of 14 ns was applied to a 1-cm-diameter bullet-shaped cathode with a tip curvature radius of 0.2 mm; the discharge current reached 350 A. It is found that the diameter of the discharge channel in the anode plane varies in the range 2.5–9.7 mm from shot to shot. The overall imprint of the current channel is formed of 170–9500 imprints of microchannels with an average diameter of 5–20 μm. The parameters of the observed microstructure do not correlate with variations in the main electric characteristics of the discharge and the parameters of the generated X-ray pulse. It is shown that the formation of the microstructure is related to the onset of cathode-directed plasma structures developing from the anode. It is suggested that the same mechanism is responsible for both the formation of the current channels structure and the anode microstructure of diffuse nanosecond discharges developing in atmospheric-pressure air gaps with a highly nonuniform electric field.     

铜镍合金丝电爆炸放电特性与时空演化行为

脉冲电流驱动金属丝电爆炸可产生具有较高能量密度的等离子体,并伴随脉冲电磁辐射、强冲击波等效应,广泛应用于Z箍缩、电热化学武器、油气助采等领域;与纯金属相比,合金具备电阻率高、成分可调、相变复杂等特点,在电爆炸效应参数的调控方面具有很大潜力。开展了大气空气介质中铜、镍、铜镍（康铜）丝在微秒时间尺度电脉冲作用下电爆炸实验研究,通过放电参数与自辐射图像诊断,获取电爆炸过程放电参数与时空演变的特性规律,得到脉冲电流作用下合金电爆炸在相变与等离子体方面的特征。实验发现,在电爆炸早期,铜镍合金的高电阻率能够提高能量沉积效率:铜52%、镍74%、铜镍合金78%;而相爆开始后,合金丝负载则更接近纯镍丝负载性能。等离子体通道早期膨胀速率在5 mm/μs量级,随后迅速衰减;合金丝等离子体膨胀时间更久,击穿后平均电阻率上升缓慢,且等离子体辐射与金属爆炸产物在空间尺度上存在关联性。特别地,铜镍合金气溶胶分层同时具有横向和纵向特征（特征尺度10?1 mm）,但整体较铜气溶胶更为均匀。     

铜丝水中电爆炸能量沉积特性

对s脉冲电压作用下铜丝水中电爆炸的能量沉积过程进行了实验研究,利用自积分Rogowski线圈和电阻分压器分别测量铜丝电爆炸时的电流和电压。利用测量电压波形确定了熔融起始、熔融结束、汽化起始和击穿时刻点,将铜丝电爆炸划分成熔融、液态和汽化3个阶段。通过数学方法计算了3个阶段和击穿前的沉积总能量。通过实验和计算,分析了电路参数,包括放电电压和回路电感,以及铜丝特性,包括铜丝长度和直径,对铜丝电爆炸过程中3个阶段和击穿前沉积总能量的影响。结果表明:在s脉冲电压作用下,放电电压、回路电感、铜丝长度和直径对熔融阶段能量沉积影响较小,但对液态和汽化阶段能量沉积影响较大,通过调节电路参数提高电流上升速率,可以显著提高汽化和击穿前的沉积能量。     

并联金属丝提高电爆炸丝沉积能量的数值模拟

对于低气压或真空环境中的电爆炸丝,因丝沿面击穿会过早终止能量沉积过程,使丝中沉积能量(Ed)大大低于金属丝完全汽化时所需能量(Es).本文提出并联金属丝法延缓沿面击穿时刻以提高电爆炸丝沉积能量.对电流上升时间为几十纳秒、幅值约为1 kA级作用下的金属丝电爆炸过程进行了数值模拟.结果表明,在电爆炸丝两端并联一定尺寸的金属丝可降低爆炸丝端电压上升率,从而推迟电压上升过程中沿面击穿时刻,显著提高丝中沉积能量和过热系数.     

氮气火花开关击穿机制的理论和数值研究

三电极气体火花开关带有触发极,相比两电极开关,其开关导通的可控性较高,工作电压较低且抖动小,所以气体火花开关中三电极开关的应用较为广泛.本文针对大气压氮气环境下的两电极开关和三电极开关的击穿机制进行了理论与数值模拟研究.通过理论和数值计算发现,对于平板-平板的两电极开关来说,低电压下(小于6.3 kV)无法产生流注击穿,高电压下(大于6.3 kV)会先形成由阴极到阳极的负流注,然后再形成由阳极向阴极的正流注.而在三电极开关的击穿过程中,首先会在触发极和绝缘体之间发生击穿,然后这个通道不断向阴阳极扩展,最终形成阴阳极之间的电弧通道.在本文的计算工况下,如果需要阴极-触发极、阳极-触发极同时击穿的话,其阴极-触发极之间的外加电压需要大于1.18 kV,而阳极-触发极之间的外加电压需要大于3 kV.当考虑触发极的场致发射后,该击穿阈值可以显著降低.     

丝电爆过程的电流导入机理

丝电爆制备纳米粉时, 电流从电极导入金属丝的过程直接影响电极烧损和粉末中微米级大颗粒产生. 分别通过接触和气体放电两种方式导入电流进行电爆试验. 结果表明, 光测量装置检测到的丝端部光电流几乎与回路放电电流同时产生, 而中间位置的光电流则要滞后一段时间; 由探针收集的产物确定, 金属丝端部主要形成熔融粒子, 中间部分主要形成气相粒子. 分析可知, 接触方式导入电流时, 丝端部也存在气体放电现象, 大电流主要通过气体放电形成的等离子体导入. 等离子体对电流的旁路作用会阻碍能量向金属丝沉积, 这是产生微米级大颗粒和"积瘤"主要原因. 通过气体放电方式导入电流时, 电极烧损明显减轻, 并可以避免"积瘤"产生.     

A high-current rail-type gas switch with preionization by an additional corona discharge

The characteristics of a high-current rail-type gas switch with preionization of the gas (air) in a spark gap by an additional corona discharge are investigated. The experiments were performed in a voltage range of 10–45 kV using a two-electrode switch consisting of two cylindrical electrodes with a diameter of 22 mm and a length of 100 mm and a set of laterally located corona-discharge needles. The requirements for the position and size of the needles are defined for which a corona discharge is ignited before a breakdown of the main gap and does not change to a sparking form, and the entire length of the rail electrodes is efficiently used. The fulfillment of these requirements ensures stable operation of the switch with a small variation of the pulse breakdown voltage, which is not more than 1% for a fixed voltage-pulse rise time in the range from 150 ns to 3.5 μs. A short delay time of the switch breakdown makes it possible to control the two-electrode switch by an overvoltage pulse of nanosecond duration.     

Structure of the glow of a nanosecond diffuse discharge in a strongly nonuniform electric field

The structure of the glow of a diffuse discharge in air under atmospheric pressure is studied in detail in the “rod (cathode)-plane” geometry for an electrode gap of 10 cm and a cathode tip radius from 3 cm to 2.4 μm. The amplitude of voltage across the gap was ～ 220 kV for voltage growth rate of ～10¹³ V/s and a pulse duration of 180 ns. It is found that the shape of the discharge glow strongly depends on the radius of the cathode tip. For large values of the radius, the multichannel form of the glow prevails, which is statistically transformed into a volume glow as the radius decreases from 5 mm to 60 μm. This transition is accompanied by a decrease in the amplitude of the discharge current from 440 to 140 A on the average. For ultrasmall radii of the cathode (2.4–7.7 μm), the multichannel form of the glow prevails again and the amplitude of the discharge current increases up to ～300 A.     

水中金属丝爆引燃铝粉悬浮液冲击波增强效应

开展了水中铜丝电爆炸引燃铝粉悬浮液的实验研究,将铝粉悬浮液置于有机玻璃管中,同轴心方向穿过200 μm的金属铜丝,经脉冲功率驱动后快速相变发生电爆炸为铝粉爆燃提供反应条件。通过比对不同质量球状铝粉（μm粒径）的悬浮液在相同脉冲电容器储能条件下的放电和冲击波参数,获得了电爆炸驱动铝粉放电特性和冲击波增强效应的规律。实验发现,电爆炸起爆铝粉的冲击波有两个明显的波峰,分别对应于金属丝电爆炸（一次冲击波）和由产物气体胀裂管壁产生的二次冲击波,且铝粉爆燃对二次冲击波的增强效应非常显著,在300 mg铝粉的悬浮液环境中,二次冲击波峰值达到2.77 MPa,是无铝粉添加环境中二次冲击波的2.25倍,冲击波冲量增强了约50%。对不同储能条件下200 mg铝粉的悬浮液环境中金属丝爆的冲击波进行了对比研究,发现随着驱动源储能的增加,电爆炸引发的主冲击波和二次冲击波压力均逐渐增大,600 J时分别达到了3.17和1.91 MPa,冲击波冲量也随储能增加而增加,在600 J储能条件时的冲量为41.12 Pa·s,储能条件约300 J时20.24 Pa·s冲量的2倍。