Monday 7
A. Arcs
Chair: J.W. Spencer - Each talk is 10'+2' duration
› 11:20 - 11:35 (15min)
› Cabannes
An Experimental Investigation of Nozzle Arcs under Turbulent Conditions
Fei Yang  1, 2, 3, 4@  
1 : Yuqing Pei
2 : Joseph D. Yan
3 : Jim Humphries
4 : Joseph W. Spencer

Turbulence cooling is an important energy removal mechanism for switching arcs. In the present work a two pressure system with an upstream stagnant pressure of up to 10 bar is used to generate low current arcs in a converging-diverging nozzle to obtain experimental results for the verification of turbulence models. Arc voltage and current measurement is taken for transient arcs with a maximum length of 60 mm in the current range of 100 A to 333 A. The repeatability of the results is discussed. 


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