正极性纳秒脉冲电压下变压器油中流注放电仿真研究

建立了二维轴对称流体模型, 仿真研究了正极性纳秒脉冲电压下变压器油中针-板电极流注放电的起始与发展过程, 得到了不同的外施电压幅值、脉冲上升沿时间与电极间隙距离下油中流注放电的形貌、 电场强度与空间电荷密度分布等. 仿真结果表明: 空间电荷加强了流注头部前方电场, 使流注通道更易于向前推进, 形成"电离波"; 随着外施电压幅值升高, 流注发展的平均速度显著变大; 较陡的脉冲上升沿形成的放电半径较大, 对应的最大电场强度值变小; 随着电极间隙距离的增加, 流注发展平均速度变快. 仿真显示纳秒脉冲下放电中油温无明显升高, 表明此类放电过程没有明显的油气化现象. 我们认为, 场致电离是油中带电粒子产生的主导机制; 空间电荷效应增强流注前方电场使得电离进一步发展, 最终导致击穿. 本研究有助于加深对变压器油中放电起始、发展直至击穿过程的认识以及对液体电介质中电离机制的理解. 关键词： 变压器油 流体模型 流注放电 空间电荷效应     

大气压空气纳秒脉冲板-板放电中逃逸电子产生机理

经典放电理论(Townsend和流注理论)解释纳秒脉冲气体放电存在局限性,近年来基于高能电子逃逸的纳秒脉冲气体放电理论研究受到广泛关注.但是目前对大气压空气纳秒脉冲板-板放电中逃逸电子产生机理研究仍较少,严重阻碍了纳秒脉冲放电等离子体的应用发展.本文利用一维粒子模型,对幅值为20 kV的纳秒脉冲电压驱动下,间隙长为1 mm的板-板电极之间的大气压空气放电中逃逸电子的产生机理进行了数值模拟研究..结果表明,在空间电荷动力学行为的影响下,板-板电极之间出现了增强电场区域,使得电子可以满足电子逃逸判据而进入逃逸模式.此外,还观察到放电通道前逃逸电子的预电离效应导致了二次电子崩的产生,随着二次电子崩与放电通道不断汇聚,引导并加速了放电通道的发展,最终导致气隙击穿.本研究进一步揭示了纳秒脉冲板-板放电机理,拓展了纳秒脉冲气体放电基础理论,为纳秒脉冲放电等离子体的应用和发展开辟了新的机会.     

液体介质微/纳秒脉冲放电的特性与机理:现状及进展

液相放电是高电压与绝缘技术领域持续的研究热点,深入理解微/纳秒脉冲放电的特性与机理有利于促进液相放电在电气装备设计优化、深远海勘探、先进材料制备等前沿领域的创新与突破。总结梳理了近年来液体介质微/纳秒脉冲流注放电特性与机理研究的进展,从放电模式与转化、分叉行为、击穿过程等方面阐释了流注放电的基础特性,归纳了液体电导率、压强、溶解气体、杂质与添加剂等物性参数对流注放电特性的影响规律,分析了液体介质流注放电起始与发展机制（包括气泡理论、液相直接碰撞电离、场致分子电离、电致伸缩效应等）及其适用范围。在此基础上,展望了液相放电领域的发展方向和面临的挑战,为相关领域的基础研究和工程应用提供参考。     

纳秒脉冲气体放电机理探讨

 经典Townsend机理和流注理论是气体放电研究的基础,但在解释纳秒脉冲气体放电时均存在一定缺陷。基于经典气体放电理论,探讨纳秒脉冲气体放电机理,分析流注理论判据在纳秒脉冲气体放电中的有效性,解释纳秒脉冲下电子逃逸现象和基于电子逃逸的快速电离波击穿理论,仿真计算高能快电子的逃逸过程。结果认为基于高能量快电子的逃逸击穿将是可能解释纳秒脉冲下气体放电现象的依据。     

基于电致伸缩效应的水中纳秒脉冲放电起始机制

水中纳秒脉冲放电的起始阶段包含了丰富的物理过程,现有实验诊断技术在揭示数纳秒内液体中电荷输运、倍增过程方面还有不少困难,放电起始的机制尚不明确.本文建立了针板电极二维轴对称水中放电物理模型,仿真研究纳秒脉冲导致的水中电致伸缩效应、空化过程和随后的液体电离过程.结果表明,在纳秒脉冲电压作用下,电致伸缩效应可导致针尖附近数微米区域内的液体发生空化,形成大量纳米尺度的空腔;空腔在其表面电致伸缩压强的作用下膨胀,为电子提供了加速空间;高能电子可引发水分子的碰撞电离,使局域液体被快速电离.电致伸缩机制为理解水中纳秒脉冲放电的起始过程提供了新的视角.     

金属微粒影响三电极气体火花开关击穿过程的仿真研究

气体火花开关在脉冲功率技术中得到了大量应用,但由于脉冲功率技术大电流高电压的特点,气体火花开关在使用过程中很容易对电极表面造成烧蚀,烧蚀产生的金属微粒会显著影响开关的稳定性和可靠性.本文首先针对大气压氮气环境下的三电极气体火花开关放电过程进行建模,对触发极边缘高场强区域的电离系数进行修正,使用场致电子发射电流模拟初始电子产生的过程,深入探究开关导通的物理机理,详细叙述开关击穿过程各阶段的放电形态.接着研究了金属微粒对于击穿过程的影响,研究表明金属微粒的存在增强了触发极附近的电场,加速了初始电子云的产生,同时金属微粒与触发极之间会率先击穿,并成为后续流注发展的源头.除此之外,金属微粒对于流注的传播具有阻碍作用,使放电通道产生分支.最后本文讨论了不同形状以及尺寸的金属微粒对于放电过程的影响,这些都为进一步研究三电极气体火花开关放电过程以及金属微粒诱发开关击穿的物理机理提供了理论支撑.     

均匀电场SF6短气隙放电过程动态模拟

根据基本物理定律和流体力学,构建均匀电场下SF₆短气隙放电流体模型,运用通量校正传输法(flux-corrected transport)数值分析大气压下4 mm间隙SF₆的放电过程,展现放电空间带电粒子产生、复合、附着、扩散以及光致电离动态过程,获得了放电间隙电场畸变、带电粒子动力学行为和放电通道形成发展历程和时空分布,根据R-M判据求出模型放电过程中电子崩转向流注的时空临界点,印证了光致电离在流注发展阶段的重要作用.     

脉冲电压下的自击穿水介质开关击穿特性和电路参数实验研究

 介绍了“强光一号”加速器中两种结构的自击穿水开关，建立了简化的开关电路模型，并通过估算和Pspice模拟确定了开关的电路参数，包括电极间杂散电容、火花通道电感和火花电阻。研究表明开关导通过程中的流注电容效应可以忽略，放电通道火花电感与电阻选取流注导通时刻的值，且在主放电电流传递过程中保持不变。根据实验结果，阐述了两种开关击穿的不同特点：对于局部电场增强型的球-板电极结构的主开关，可以采用J. C. Martin稍不均匀场水击穿经验公式估算临界场强；而棒-板电极结构的多针开关，适合用J. C. Martin针-板击穿模型的水击穿经验公式估算临界场强，且并联工作的9个多针开关可以同时形成独立的放电通道。     

纳秒脉冲下高能量快电子逃逸过程的计算

基于快电子的逃逸击穿机理将是一种能解释纳秒脉冲高过电压倍数下气体放电现象的理论，对高能量快电子的逃逸运动、碰撞电离引导电子崩的发展等进行了分析，并根据电子能量与阻力关系式，对电子的俘获或逃逸过程进行了计算.结果表明外加场强越高，更多的电子能逃逸，逃逸的能量阈值越低，气压对电子的逃逸过程影响也较大.同时也定性描述了纳秒脉冲下逃逸击穿放电过程. 关键词： 气体放电 快电子 逃逸击穿 纳秒脉冲     

纳秒脉冲下几种液态介质绝缘性能的比对

利用自行研制的纳秒脉冲实验平台(输出脉冲前沿30 ns,半宽百纳秒)和标准介电强度测试仪,对变压器油、甘油、去离子水、Galden HT200四种液体绝缘介质在直流与纳秒脉冲下的击穿特性进行了实验研究与结果比对,结果表明:在直流与纳秒脉冲下,Galden HT200均具有最高的击穿场强,且两种情况下均比变压器油高出40%以上;纳秒脉冲下,Galden HT200与变压器油的击穿场强均提高6.5~7倍,Galden HT200击穿过程耗时最短(ns量级),其次是变压器油(20 ns),然后依次为甘油(45 ns)和去离子水(70 ns);多次放电后,粘度系数最大的甘油更易在电极间隙处聚集碳化放电产物,粘度系数较小的Galden HT200和去离子水则无明显痕迹,但二者放电过程会产生明显的冲击波,多次放电后易造成间隙电极松动。     

Theory of positive corona in SF6 due to a voltageimpulse

A theoretical examination is made of the mechanism of corona formation for a positive point-plane gap in SF₆ at 100 kPa. The impulse voltage applied has a rise time of 15 ns and peak value of 200 kV. Seed electrons are released 1 ns after the start of the voltage rise. For a 0.5-cm diameter positive sphere located 6.5 cm from a negative plane, the calculated circuit current initially consists of subnanosecond corona onset pulses, and then the current steadily rises to a maximum, as the voltage reaches a maximum, followed by a rapid fall in current. During the current rise a streamer moves out into the gap along a 100-μm channel, with the electric field in the streamer trail E>E*, where E* is the critical field where ionization equals attachment. The light output during the discharge is predicted to be a maximum at the anode with only a minor pulse of light at the streamer head, making it hard to detect. After the current maximum, recombination rapidly reduces the numbers of positive ions, negative ions, and electrons, but the net charge density remains constant and thus so does the electric field. The electric field is E~E* in the streamer trail, but has a sharp maximum, E≫E* at the head of the streamer trail. The origin of mid-gap precursors, observed when the streamer channel reilluminates after some 100 ns, is attributed to this field maximum in the remnant electric field. The evolution of positive ions, negative ions, and electrons is described by one-dimensional continuity equations, with the space-charge electric fields determined by the disk method. The effects of ionization, attachment, recombination, electron diffusion, and photoionization are all included. New numerical methods allow resolution of the streamer head and the anode fall region to be obtained with a 1-μm mesh, while following the streamer propagation for ~2 cm     

Full multi grid method for electric field computation in point-to-plane streamer discharge in air at atmospheric pressure

Streamers dynamics are characterized by the fast propagation of ionized shock waves at the nanosecond scale under very sharp space charge variations. The streamer dynamics modelling needs the solution of charged particle transport equations coupled to the elliptic Poisson’s equation. The latter has to be solved at each time step of the streamers evolution in order to follow the propagation of the resulting space charge electric field. In the present paper, a full multi grid (FMG) and a multi grid (MG) methods have been adapted to solve Poisson’s equation for streamer discharge simulations between asymmetric electrodes. The validity of the FMG method for the computation of the potential field is first shown by performing direct comparisons with analytic solution of the Laplacian potential in the case of a point-to-plane geometry. The efficiency of the method is also compared with the classical successive over relaxation method (SOR) and MUltifrontal massively parallel solver (MUMPS). MG method is then applied in the case of the simulation of positive streamer propagation and its efficiency is evaluated from comparisons to SOR and MUMPS methods in the chosen point-to-plane configuration. Very good agreements are obtained between the three methods for all electro-hydrodynamics characteristics of the streamer during its propagation in the inter-electrode gap. However in the case of MG method, the computational time to solve the Poisson’s equation is at least 2 times faster in our simulation conditions.     

Mechanism for propagation of a positive leader

A model of leader breakdown in air is considered. The channel is formed due to heating of the streamer trace in the field of the streamer zone. A previous model of a streamer is generalized with allowance for recombination of charged particles. A mathematical model of heating of the streamer trace is developed. It is demonstrated that, at a given potential, the ignition of the channel is provided by streamers that possess a certain charge and the corresponding propagation velocity. This velocity determines the propagation velocity of a steady leader. The dependence of the leader velocity on the cloud potential is found. The results obtained are compared with the data from in-situ observations and laboratory studies.     

Local electron mean energy profile of positive primary streamer discharge with pin-plate electrodes in oxygen nitrogen mixtures

Local electron mean energy (LEME) has a direct effect on the rates of collisional ionization of molecules and atoms by electrons. Electron-impact ionization plays an important role and is the main process for the production of charged particles in a primary streamer discharge. Detailed research on the LEME profile in a primary streamer discharge is extremely important for a comprehensive understanding of the local physical mechanism of a streamer. In this study, the LEME profile of the primary streamer discharge in oxygen-nitrogen mixtures with a pin-plate gap of 0.5 cm under an impulse voltage is investigated using a fluid model. The fluid model includes the electron mean energy density equation, as well as continuity equations for electrons and ions and Poisson’s electric field equation. The study finds that, except in the initial stage of the primary streamer, the LEME in the primary streamer tip tends to increase as the oxygen-nitrogen mole ratio increases and the pressure decreases. When the primary streamer bridges the gap, the LEME in the primary streamer channel is smaller than the first ionization energies of oxygen and nitrogen. The LEME in the primary streamer channel then decreases as the oxygen-nitrogen mole ratio increases and the pressure increases. The LEME in the primary streamer tip is primarily dependent on the reduced electric field with mole ratios of oxygen-nitrogen given in the oxygen-nitrogen mixtures.     

Another Possible Interpretation of SQS Mechanism

Experiments on self quenching streamer discharge in cylindrical tube and wire chamber are performed,and an interpretation of SQS mechanism is proposed in this paper.The excited atoms or molecules created in the latent track and subsequent avalanche play an important role,they form the main photo-electron source and the interaction between them is also possibly a source of ionizing photon.A formula that describe the jump and streamer charge is deduced.The effect of electric field of the space charge is computed.The comparison between theory and experiments is made.     

Mechanism for the streamer propagation toward the anode and cathode due to background electron multiplication

A simple mechanism for the propagation of an ionization wave in a dense gas due to the multiplication of background electrons in a nonuniform electric field is proposed. The mechanism does not depend on the sign of the field projection onto the streamer propagation direction. The streamer propagation is caused by the enhancement of the electric field at the streamer head. It is shown that, in a prebreakdown field, the intense multiplication of electrons takes place in both electropositive and electronegative gases. The prebreakdown multiplication can provide a fairly high density of background electrons; this allows one to treat the background as a continuous medium when considering streamer propagation as a multiplication wave. The initial ionization is enabled by the natural background of ionizing radiation and cosmic rays. An analytical expression for the velocity of the ionization front is obtained based on a simple equation for the multiplication of background electrons. This expression is in good agreement with numerical simulations performed within both a simple model of background electron multiplication and a more comprehensive drift-diffusion model. In particular, the drift-diffusion model predicts the propagation of the ionization front from a small-radius anode to the cathode due to the multiplication of background electrons. The velocity of the ionization wave front is calculated as a function of the electric field at the streamer head for helium, xenon, nitrogen, and sulfur hexafluoride. It is shown that some features of streamer propagation (e.g., its jerky motion) can be related to the recently found nonmonotonic dependence of ionization frequency on the electric field.     

Simple Analytical Model of the Anodic Streamer

In this work, an analytical model is used to study the formation of the anodic streamer in high pressure electrical discharge. This model enabled us to see the space variations of the characteristics of the streamer such as the electric field and the propagation velocity of streamer. The validity of the analytic approach is demonstrated by comparing the model results to the data from the literature. A qualitative concord was found. (© 2008 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)     

Study of streamer development in high-pressure electric discharge: Applications to excimer lasers

This work represents a study of the streamer formation in plasma for XeCl excimer laser at high pressure. It is based on a longitudinal mono-dimensional model of the cathodic zone. In this model, we show the possibility of the streamer development in the cathodic sheath and its propagation during the phase of plasma formation. The model gives the space and time evolution of the electron density and the discharge electric field in the presence of the streamer. The obtained results clearly indicate that, for conditions close to experiments for 50–100 ns laser pulse durations and electron power deposition in the MW/cm³ range in a 300 cm³ chamber, the streamer instability, related to the sheath evolution, patently appears. The drift velocity reaches a typical value of about 10⁸ cm/s.