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.     

微波瑞利散射法测定空气电火花激波等离子体射流的时变电子密度

大气压空气电火花激波等离子体射流的电子密度在亚微秒时间尺度上瞬变,其电子密度的测定很难.基于微波瑞利散射原理,本文测量了空气电火花冲击波流注放电等离子体射流的时变电子密度.实验结果表明:测量系统的标定参数A为1.04 × 105 V·Ω·m–2;空气流注放电等离子体射流的电子密度与等离子体射流的半径和长度有关,结合高速放电影像展示的等离子体射流的等效半径和等效长度,测定的电子密度在1020 m–3的量级,且随时间先快速增长至峰值再成指数衰减.此外,本文还探讨了等离子体射流的不同等效尺度对测定结果的影响;分析结果表明,采用时变等效半径和时变等效长度的计算结果最有效,且第1个快速波峰是由光电离的电离波导致的.     

基于分形理论的尖-板电极短空气隙放电现象研究

气体放电的发展过程非常复杂, 实验观测结果表明非均匀场短空气隙放电过程中经常产生随机并伴有分岔现象的放电通道. 由于这些放电现象的整体结构表现出一定的自相似性, 因此, 结合经典流注放电与分形理论而建立的介质击穿模型成为描述气体中放电通道分岔现象的一种有效的分析方法, 而放电通道的复杂程度可以用分形维数表征. 为了明确此模型参数中发展概率指数的取值, 本文对直流高压作用下的10 mm针板电极空气隙放电通道图像进行了分析、处理和分形计算, 并与理论模型的仿真结果对比. 由于空气隙主放电通道的亮度明显高于其他弱分支, 导致各放电通道的宽度各异, 需要对所拍摄图像进行灰度变换和边界识别处理, 最后运用盒维数法计算出分形维数. 研究结果表明在其他参数与实验条件相同条件下, 调整理论模型中的发展概率指数, 使得仿真结果与实验结果相吻合, 依据本文实验条件下和理论模型分析, 发展概率指数η 在0.04-0.05范围. 本文的研究印证了尖-板电极短空气隙放电复杂现象的可测性并提供了一种分析方法.     

纳秒脉冲下变压器油两相流注放电仿真研究

为揭示液体电介质击穿过程中形成的气体放电通道对液体电介质放电过程的影响,以针—板电极间隙变压器油为研究对象,基于等离子体流体力学模型,引入了液体电介质放电过程中气相放电通道对电离机制及自由电荷迁移率的影响,建立了用于模拟脉冲电压下液体电介质放电过程的两相流体模型,仿真研究了纳秒脉冲下针板电极流注放电的起始与发展过程。仿真结果表明:采用Heaviside方程可以在模型的不同区域同时实现气相物理过程和液相物理过程的模拟与计算。气相物理过程的引入导致流注尾部电场显著降低,流注头部电场进一步增强,使流注通道的发展速度要高于传统液相模型,有助于加深对纳秒脉冲下液体电介质中预击穿流注的起始、发展过程的认识和理解。     

基于分形理论的尖-板电极短空气隙放电现象

气体放电的发展过程非常复杂,实验观测结果表明非均匀场短空气隙放电过程中经常产生随机并伴有分岔现象的放电通道.由于这些放电现象的整体结构表现出一定的自相似性,因此,结合经典流注放电与分形理论而建立的介质击穿模型成为描述气体中放电通道分岔现象的一种有效的分析方法,而放电通道的复杂程度可以用分形维数表征.为了明确此模型参数中发展概率指数的取值,本文对直流高压作用下的10 mm针板电极空气隙放电通道图像进行了分析、处理和分形计算,并与理论模型的仿真结果对比.由于空气隙主放电通道的亮度明显高于其他弱分支,导致各放电通道的宽度各异,需要对所拍摄图像进行灰度变换和边界识别处理,最后运用计盒维数法计算出分形维数.研究结果表明,在其他参数与实验条件相同的情况下,调整理论模型中的发展概率指数,使得仿真结果与实验结果相吻合,依据本文实验条件下和理论模型分析,发展概率指数η在0.04—0.05范围.本文的研究印证了尖-板电极短空气隙放电复杂现象的可测性并提供了一种分析方法.     

空气中大气压下均匀辉光放电的可能性

利用介质阻挡电极结构,对101325×105Pa气压下空气间隙中的放电进行了实验研究,数值模拟计算了实验条件下电子雪崩的发展过程.结果表明:对于长度不大于2mm的空气间隙,可能实现辉光放电.对于长度不小于5mm的空气间隙,如果不能设法降低放电场强,放电必然是流注形式,不可能实现辉光放电.另外,实验结果未能验证“离子捕获”机理降低放电场强而实现辉光放电的正确性 关键词： 大气压辉光放电 电子雪崩 流注     

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.     

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。     

高功率横流CO2激光器脉冲预电离过程研究

本文给出了对高功率横流CO_2激光器脉冲预电离过程的理论和实验研究.表明了预电离过程中光电离的重要作用.实验结果表明,脉冲预电离可增大高功率横流CO_2.激光器的pd值(p为放电气压、d为放电间隔),增大放电区注入功率密度.对于提高此类型激光器的放电稳定性和输出激光功率是一种技术简单而有效的手段.     

Interaction of streamer discharges in air and other oxygen-nitrogen mixtures

The interaction of streamers in nitrogen-oxygen mixtures such as air is studied. First, an efficient method for fully three-dimensional streamer simulations in multiprocessor machines is introduced. With its help, we find two competing mechanisms how two adjacent streamers can interact: through electrostatic repulsion and through attraction due to nonlocal photoionization. The nonintuitive effects of pressure and of the nitrogen-oxygen ratio are discussed. As photoionization is experimentally difficult to access, we finally suggest to measure it indirectly through streamer interactions.     

针-板空气间隙流注放电起始过程的三维PIC/MCC仿真研究

流注放电作为自然界中闪电传播的预电离机制、高压输变线路间长空间间隙放电的重要初始阶段,在工业领域存在诸多潜在应用,近年来引起人们越来越多的关注.流注放电具有典型的多尺度、非线性的放电特征,实验观测中多呈现出分叉等不规则结构.为了研究其微观结构特性和行为特征,本文采用三维粒子仿真模型(PIC/MCC),着重研究了流注从针型正电极的起始和发展过程.模型采用了可变自适应网格、可变粒子权重以及并行计算等技术,有效地降低了三维粒子仿真的计算时间.通过调节针型电极上的施加电压幅值、改变气体组分及调整电极形状尺寸等,研究了放电参数变化对流注放电的分叉结构、半径等行为的影响.模拟结果表明:随着电压的升高,流注的半径及分叉数目增加;对比不同气体组分(纯氧以及不同比例氮氧混合气体),发现其对流注的分叉数目影响较为显著;针型电极结构直接影响了流注的起始时间和形貌.     

Density models for streamer discharges: Beyond cylindrical symmetry and homogeneous media

Streamer electrical discharges are often investigated with computer simulations of density models (also called reaction-drift-diffusion models). We review these models, detailing their physical foundations, their range of validity and the most relevant numerical algorithms employed in solving them. We focus particularly on schemes of adaptive refinement, used to resolve the multiple length scales in a streamer discharge without a high computational cost. We then report recent results from these models, emphasizing developments that go beyond cylindrically symmetrical streamers propagating in homogeneous media. These include interacting streamers, branching streamers and sprite streamers in inhomogeneous media.     

Experiments on plasma-physical aspects of closed cycle MHD power generation

In this paper, important laboratory experiments in closed-cycle magneto-hydrodynamic (MHD) generator plasmas are discussed. The following aspects are treated: electron temperature elevation and nonequilibrium ionization, fluctuations and nonuniformity, streamers as the nonlinear appearance of ionization instability, inlet relaxation, and fully ionized seed as a concept to suppress ionization instability. Conclusions are presented on electrical transport parameters in nonuniform plasmas, streamer fine structure, streamer velocity, streamer initiation in relation to inlet relaxation, and the fully ionized seed concept.     

脉冲电晕放电流光发展和OH自由基二维分布的发射光谱研究

流光在OH自由基的生成过程中起到重要作用。为了研究流光与OH自由基之间的关系,利用ICCD拍摄了线板式脉冲电晕放电反应器内流光的形成和发展过程,着重研究了在反应器几何结构固定的情况下,输入峰值电压对流光发展速度和流光在阴极板覆盖范围的影响。实验表明在反应器不击穿的情况下,输入峰值电压越大,越有利于流光的发展,因此生成的高能电子数量越多。此外我们还利用发射光谱法测量了脉冲电晕放电反应器内OH自由基的二维分布特性,并且与流光发展轨迹图对比。OH自由基在放电电场中的分布特性是以电极线为中心向四周扩散,浓度逐渐降低。这个结论和流光在脉冲电晕放电反应器内的发展轨迹图相吻合。     

The lifetime of positive streamers in a pulsed point-to-plane gap in atmospheric air

A determination has been made of the lifetime of positive streamers produced in atmospheric air in a positive point-to-plane gap to which was applied a 40 nsec, 40 kV voltage pulse. The streamer tips have been detected at a given plane in the gap by means of a photomultiplier and high speed oscilloscope. It was found that the streamer tips continued to propagate in the gap, long (up to 35 nsec) after the voltage pulse was removed, in accordance with the predictions of a recently presented model of streamer propagation. Association of this long lifetime with the properties of an isolated tip was made possible by the detection of a new phenomenon at the anode. At the end of the voltage pulse a second luminosity was observed to leave the anode and to extend along the paths of the primary streamers for about one third of their length. This is shown to be the maximum extent of a more highly conducting trunk, behind and separated from the streamer tip, affecting both the propagation of the tip and the eventual transition of a streamer to a breakdown spark.     

A model for streamer propagation

A model is presented to describe the propagation of positive corona streamers in the low field region of a non-uniform field gap in atmospheric air. It has been assumed that the growth is a property solely of the streamer tip, uninfluenced by the channel conductivity. Calculations from the model indicate that the criterion for propagation of a streamer in zero external field is that the number of ions in the tip be 10⁸ and the radius about 3×10^?3 cm. It is proposed that the streamer ceases to propagate as a result of the loss of energy of the tip due to the formation of ion pairs in the channel. The results of previous experimental observations of streamers are compared with calculations derived from the model, and a prediction from the model of the lifetime of streamers after voltage removal is discussed.     

Computer-generated images of streamer propagation in nitrogen

We present the computer-generated images of streamer propagation in an overvolted parallel plate gap at atmospheric pressure. Two-dimensional colored images of cross sections of streamers and electric field are presented. The results show the filamentary nature of the streamers and the strong field distortions caused by the space charge     

Measurement of the Dynamic Displacement Current as a New Method of Study of the Dynamics of Formation of a Streamer at a Breakdown of Gases at a High Pressure

The dynamics of formation of streamers in a “needle–plane” gap filled with air at atmospheric pressure has been studied. It has been shown that the time dependence of the dynamic displacement current measured by either a current shunt or a collector placed behind a grid electrode is determined by the rate of variation of the shape and dimensions of a streamer. The presence of a single peak on oscillograms of the dynamic displacement current means that a ball streamer is formed in the gap and does not cross the gap during the time of voltage application. The presence of two peaks on oscillograms of the dynamic displacement current means that the ball streamer crosses the gap and reaches the opposite electrode. In this case, the ball streamer is usually transformed to a cylindrical one. It has been shown that the measurement of the dynamic displacement current makes it possible to determine the time dependence of the electric field strength near the planar electrode.     

Spatially hybrid computations for streamer discharges : II. Fully 3D simulations

We recently have presented first physical predictions of a spatially hybrid model that follows the evolution of a negative streamer discharge in full three spatial dimensions; our spatially hybrid model couples a particle model in the high field region ahead of the streamer with a fluid model in the streamer interior where electron densities are high and fields are low. Therefore the model is computationally efficient, while it also follows the dynamics of single electrons including their possible run-away. Here we describe the technical details of our computations, and present the next step in a systematic development of the simulation code. First, new sets of transport coefficients and reaction rates are obtained from particle swarm simulations in air, nitrogen, oxygen and argon. These coefficients are implemented in an extended fluid model to make the fluid approximation as consistent as possible with the particle model, and to avoid discontinuities at the interface between fluid and particle regions. Then two splitting methods are introduced and compared for the location and motion of the fluid-particle-interface in three spatial dimensions. Finally, we present first results of the 3D spatially hybrid model for a negative streamer in air. Future applications of the hybrid model lie in effects of electron density fluctuations on inception, propagation and branching of streamers, and in accurate calculations of electron energies at and of electron run-away from the streamer head. The last is relevant for hard radiation from streamer-leader systems and possibly for Terrestrial Gamma-Ray Flashes.