Modeling of ionization–recombination processes in the atmospheric surface layer

The electrical structure of non-stationary horizontally-homogenous surface layer with multi-charged aerosol particles was mathematically modeled in the approximation of turbulent electrode effect. The profiles of positive and negative small ions and nuclei, electric field, polar air conductivity, current density and space charge density were computed in different time periods and various physical conditions. The mathematical model of non-stationary horizontally homogenous surface layer with aerosol particles was made regarding turbulent mixing and convective transport. The space-time distributions of positive and negative small ions and nuclei, electric field, electrical conductivity, current density and space charge density for various physical conditions (aerosol concentrations, turbulent mixing, convective transport, air ionization rate, electric field strength near surface, aerosol particles size) were received. Experimental data of electrical and meteorological parameters were measured and analyzed. It was received that theoretical results are in a good agreement with experimental data.     

Efficiency of particle charging by an alternating electric field charger

Alternating electric field charger is a device in which the particles are charged by ionic current and periodically deflected by alternating electric field during their flow through the charger. The oscillatory motion of small amplitude reduces the particle loss within the charger. The results of measurements of mean charge of the particles at the outlet and their penetration through the charger are presented in the paper.     

基于Geant 4的介质深层充电电场计算

基于Geant4模拟了电子在Teflon介质中的电荷输运过程,获得了其内部的电流密度、剂量率和电荷沉积量沿深度的分布曲线,进而利用电荷连续性方程、泊松方程和深层俘获方程求解出Teflon中高能量、小束流电子辐照下的电场分布. 将介质平板充电过程简化为屏蔽铝板与分层介质组成的Geant4模型,电子源为1.0MeV,0.1pA/cm²的平面源. 通过记录经过各层介质的电子电量和各层介质内沉积能量和电子数目,用统计平均的方法获得了介质内电流密度、剂量率和电荷沉积量沿深度的分布规律. 介质内 关键词： 卫星 介质深层充电 Geant4 电场     

有关运动超导体电磁性质的几点讨论

在伦敦方程和电磁场的洛伦兹变换的基础上讨论了在磁场中运动的第一类超导平板的电磁性质。结果表明临界磁场将随超导体的速度的增加而减小 ;在穿透层内有一指数衰减的屏蔽电荷分布 ,其符号与超导体表面由运动感生的电荷相反、数量相等。屏蔽电荷屏蔽了表面电荷产生的感应电场 ,使电场和磁场一样在穿透层内指数衰减 ,在远离表面的内部 ,感应电场被完全屏蔽     

Electromagnetic scattering of charged particles in a strong wind-blown sand electric field

Some field experimental results have shown that the moving sands or dust aerosols in nature are usually electrified,and those charged particles also produce a strong electric field in air, which is named as wind-blown sand electric field.Some scholars have pointed out that the net charge on the particle significantly enhances its electromagnetic(EM) extinction properties, but up to now, there is no conclusive research on the effect of the environmental electric field. Based on the extended Mie theory, the effect of the electric field in a sandstorm on the EM attenuation properties of the charged larger dust particle is studied. The numerical results indicate that the environmental electric field also has a great influence on the particle's optical properties, and the stronger the electric field, the bigger the effect. In addition, the charged angle, the charge density, and the particle radius all have a specific impact on the charged particle's optical properties.     

Charge and force acting on a spherical body near a planar electrode in a polarizable conducting medium

A method for calculating electric fields in conducting polarizable media with interface is suggested. An integral equation for the density of surface charge induced at the interface is derived. The value of this density is used to find the field in the volume. The total charge induced at the interface and the force acting on a spherical body touching a planar electrode are calculated. It is found that the total charge and the force are alternating functions of the relative conductivity of the media; that is, both repulsion from and attraction to the electrode are possible depending on the conductivity. The near-electrode force acting on solid particles, bubbles, and drops in an immiscible liquid is studied experimentally.     

Detection of elementary charges on colloidal particles

We have succeeded in determining the charge of individual colloidal particles with resolution higher than the elementary charge. The number of elementary charges on a particle is obtained from the analysis of optical tracking data of weakly charged silica spheres in an electric field in a nonpolar medium. The analysis also yields an accurate value of the particle size. Measurement of the charge as a function of time reveals events in which the particle loses or gains an elementary charge due to ionization or recombination processes at the surface.     

Corona discharge ion sources for fine particle charging

Charging of aerosol droplets and solid particles is applied in many industrial processes such as electrostatic painting, particle separation and electrostatic precipitation. In most of charging devices, electrical discharges are used as a source of ions, which are deposited onto the particles. In the present paper, the charging process by ionic current in alternating electric field was optimized experimentally. Alternating electric field charger was used as a charging device in these experiments. The current voltage characteristics of electrical discharge in this device, and the charge imparted to the particles were determined. The level of charge was measured at the outlet of the charger and was compared to the Pauthenier limit for different supply voltages, and frequencies. MgO powder was used as a source of particles in these experiments. It was noticed that higher supply voltage of the charger gives higher level of particle charge, but at the same time, the particle deposition on the charger elements was increased, decreasing the particle penetration. A compromise between these two tendencies is therefore necessary. As a result we have proposed a criterion maximizing the total charge born by the particles which is a product of relative particle charge and particle penetration.     

Event-driven simulations of insulating grains in an external electric field

In this work we employ event-driven particle dynamics simulations for a system of spherical insulating grains interacting with an external electric field. This system resembles the electrostatic particle separation present on some industrial processes. Here, the particles collide inelastically with each other and with the container walls, for a constant normal and tangential restitution coefficients. During the collisions, the grains can acquire electric charge due to triboelectric contact charging, since two different species of insulating particles are mixed. Particle-particle electric interactions are not considered. Grains are also subjected to the gravitational field and rotation, and are confined in a cubic box with thermal walls in order to prevent the static equilibrium state. We calculate the mass and charge density profile, and the particle charge distribution for different values of the electric field and temperature of the walls. The particle charge distribution and the effect of particle sizes on the separation process were also investigated.     

DC conductivity of a suspension of insulating particles with internal rotation

We analyse the consequences of Quincke rotation on the conductivity of a suspension. Quincke rotation refers to the spontaneous rotation of insulating particles dispersed in a slightly conducting liquid and subject to a high DC electric field: above a critical field, each particle rotates continuously around itself with an axis pointing in any direction perpendicular to the DC field. When the suspension is subject to an electric field lower than the threshold one, the presence of insulating particles in the host liquid decreases the bulk conductivity since the particles form obstacles to ion migration. But for electric fields higher than the critical one, the particles rotate and facilitate ion migration: the effective conductivity of the suspension is increased. We provide a theoretical analysis of the impact of Quincke rotation on the apparent conductivity of a suspension and we present experimental results obtained with a suspension of PMMA particles dispersed in weakly conducting liquids.     

Generation of long-living charged nanoparticles at ablation in air and their role in pulsed microdrilling

The ablation of steel in air by short laser pulses was shown to form a long-living cloud of electrically charged submicron particles. These particles, being resident in the atmosphere of deep laser-produced channels within tens of seconds and carrying an electric charge during portions of a second, are able to initiate low-threshold gas breakdown resulting in the significant screening of the following pulses with a duration of ～100 ps. The clouds contained mostly positively charged particles shaped as ideal spheres. The statistics of their diameters nearly followed the Poisson law with the peak at 400 nm. The total volume of the charged particles was nearly equal to the volume of the ablatively removed material. A new approach was proposed to eliminate the screening, which implied the use of an external electric field. This enabled the enhancement of drilling rates by up to 50 times. The electric charge, mobility, and discharge rates of the particles were measured using a conductivity technique.     

等离子体表面梯度硅沉积对环氧树脂电气性能的影响

环氧树脂作为常见的绝缘材料,在高压直流电场作用下易在其表面积累电荷,发生电场畸变,导致材料绝缘性能下降,影响电力系统运行可靠性。为改善气固界面的电荷特性和绝缘性能,在大气压等离子体射流技术的基础上,对环氧树脂表面进行等离子体梯度硅沉积处理。对改性前后环氧树脂表面理化特性、表面电导率、表面电荷消散和沿面耐压特性进行了多参数测量。实验结果表明,梯度改性对材料表面的物理形貌和化学组分均有明显影响,不同区域的电导率实现了梯度分布,加快了表面电荷消散速度,表面陷阱能级变浅;梯度改性后的样品沿面闪络电压提升幅度可达30.16%。通过等离子体表面梯度硅沉积处理能够改善环氧树脂表面电气性能,在高压直流设备的绝缘设计方面具有广阔的应用前景。     

Charge Shielding in Magnetized Plasmas

The shielding of a test charge imbedded into a magnetized plasma has been investigated by means of a PIC (particle‐in‐cell) model. It is shown that the ratio of the gyration radius to the Debye length is the main parameter in the analysis. For small values of this parameter the plasma surrounding the test charge is not able to compensate this additional charge and shielding does not occur. For high values of this parameter the effect of the magnetic field vanishes and the electric forces dominate. Scaling rules are given in order to compare different sets of plasma parameters.     

关于静电屏蔽上限的讨论

将导体壳放入外电场中,导体会在表面产生感应电荷,并达到静电平衡状态,导体壳腔内的电场处处为零,这就是静电屏蔽效应.然而,如果外电场极强,或者导体内部的自由电荷太少,以至于感应电场不能完全抵消外电场,则静电屏蔽效应将失效,这就是静电屏蔽的上限问题.本文从静电屏蔽的原理出发,将导体壳简化为一对平行金属平板的模型,定量的讨论了这一问题.通过计算我们发现,由于金属内存在大量的自由电子,在非极端问题中,宏观的导体装置都远远不会遇到静电屏蔽的上限问题.     

分段表面放电沉积效率研究

利用一种结构紧凑的分段表面放电辐射源模块，详细研究了在不同电压、电容、气压实验条件下回路等效电阻、等效电感及放电能量沉积效率的变化规律，利用四分幅相机拍摄获得了不同实验条件下的放电等离子体通道图像，分析讨论了放电等离子体运动对放电能量沉积效率的影响，提出了提高能量放电沉积效率的有效途径。     

Multipole polarizability of a graded spherical particle

We have studied the multipole polarizability of a graded spherical particle in a nonuniform electric field, in which the conductivity can vary radially inside the particle. The main objective of this work is to access the effects of multipole interactions at small interparticle separations, which can be important in non-dilute suspensions of functionally graded materials. The nonuniform electric field arises either from that applied on the particle or from the local field of all other particles. We developed a differential effective multipole moment approximation (DEMMA) to compute the multipole moment of a graded spherical particle in a nonuniform external field. Moreover, we compare the DEMMA results with the exact results of the power-law graded profile and the agreement is excellent. The extension to anisotropic DEMMA will be studied in an Appendix.     

Effect of surface conduction on the dynamics of induction charging of particles

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the dynamics of induction charging for spherical particles assuming finite volume and surface conductivities. It is assumed that the thickness of the surface layer is a small percentage of the particle radius. All results were obtained using COMSOL commercial software. The results show that the rate of charge accumulation is affected by the conductivity, permittivity and the contact area with the ground electrode. It is shown that the actual charging time constant for a material with fixed bulk properties can differ considerably from the relaxation time.     

Electric dipole moments of charged particles

The existence of an electric dipole moment (edm) on a fundamental atomic particle would imply violation of both parity and time-reversal invariance. An edm on a neutral particle is detectable through its interaction with an applied electric field. The search for edms on charged particles such as the nucleus or the electron is made difficult by their acceleration in an electric field; conversely, a charged particle in equilibrium must be shielded from the field and the edm interaction will then vanish. A number of ingenious ways around this shielding theorem are discussed, as are the use of polar molecules to amplify the residual edm interactions. A range of atomic and molecular beam and optical pumping experiments are described and the results tabulated. The implications for particle theories beyond the standard model are briefly summarized.     

Levitation of charged macroparticles in the anode region of a glow discharge

Levitation of dust particles in the anode region of a dc glow discharge was observed for the first time. A dust cloud of several tens of particles formed at a distance of several millimeters above the central part of the anode. When the discharge parameters were varied, the shape of the cloud and its position above the anode varied. An analysis of the experimental conditions revealed that these particles are positively charged in contrast to other experiments on the levitation of dust particles in a gas-discharge plasma. An estimate of the particle charge taking into account processes of electron emission from their surface is consistent with results of measurements of the electric field strength.     

EHD kelvin-helmholtz instability in viscous porous medium permeated with suspended particles

The electrohydrodynamic Kelvin-Helmholtz instability of the plane interface between two uniform, superposed viscous and streaming dielectric fluids permeated with suspended particles through porous medium is considered under the influence of a tangential electric field. In the absence of surface tension, it is found that perturbations transverse to the direction of streaming are unaffected by the presence of both streaming and the tangential electric field, if perturbations in the direction of streaming are ignored. For perturbations in all other directions there exists instability for a certain wavenumber range. In the presence of surface tension, it is found that the instability of this system is suppressed by the presence of the tangential electric field. Both the tangential electric field and the surface tension have stabilizing effects and they are able to suppress Kelvin-Helmholtz instability for small wavelength perturbations. The medium porosity reduces the stability range given in terms of a difference in streaming velocities and the electric field effect, while the suspended particles do not affect the above results.