Numerical simulation of the initial plasma formation and current transfer in single-wire electrical explosion in vacuum

作     者：王坤 史宗谦 石元杰 白骏 吴坚 贾申利 邱爱慈 

作者机构：Province–Ministry Joint Key Laboratory of Electromagnetic Field and Electrical Apparatus ReliabilityHebei University of Technology State Key Laboratory of Electrical Insulation and Power Equipment Xi'an Jiaotong University 

出 版 物：《Chinese Physics B》 (中国物理B（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2017年第26卷第7期

页      面：256-261页

核心收录：

学科分类：07[理学] 0805[工学-材料科学与工程（可授工学、理学学位）] 070204[理学-等离子体物理] 0704[理学-天文学] 0702[理学-物理学] 

基　　金：Project supported by the National Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.51322706,51237006,and 51325705) the Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University,China(Grant No.NCET-11-0428) the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities,China 

主　　题：single-wire electrical explosion plasma formation current transfer 

摘      要：In this paper, a computational model is constructed to investigate the phenomenon of the initial plasma formation and current transfer in the single-wire electrical explosion in a vacuum. The process of the single-wire electrical explosion is divided into four stages. Stage Ⅰ： the wire is in solid state. Stage Ⅱ： the melting stage. Stage Ⅲ： the wire melts completely and the initial plasma forms. Stage IV： the core and corona expand separately. The thermodynamic calculation is applied before the wire melts completely in stages Ⅰ and Ⅱ. In stage Ⅲ, a one-dimensional magnetohydrodynamics model comes into play until the instant when the voltage collapse occurs. The temperature, density, and velocity, which are derived from the magnetohydrodynamics calculation, are averaged over the distribution area. The averaged parameters are taken as the initial conditions for stage Ⅳ in which a simplified magnetohydrodynamics model is applied. A wide-range semi-empirical equation of state, which is established based on the Thomas-Fermi-Kirzhnits model, is constructed to describe the phase transition from solid state to plasma state. The initial plasma formation and the phenomenon of current transfer in the electrical explosion of aluminum wire are investigated using the computational model. Experiments of electrical explosion of aluminum wires are carried out to verify this model. Simulation results are also compared with experimental results of the electrical explosion of copper wire.