Numerical simulation of the effects of protrusion on DC arc anode attachment

Chong NIU (牛冲); Xian MENG (孟显); Heji HUANG (黄河激); Tao ZHU (朱涛); Surong SUN (孙素蓉); Haixing WANG (王海兴)

doi:10.1088/2058-6272/ac125e

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Chong NIU (牛冲), Xian MENG (孟显), Heji HUANG (黄河激), Tao ZHU (朱涛), Surong SUN (孙素蓉), Haixing WANG (王海兴). Numerical simulation of the effects of protrusion on DC arc anode attachment[J]. Plasma Science and Technology, 2021, 23(10): 104006. DOI: 10.1088/2058-6272/ac125e

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Numerical simulation of the effects of protrusion on DC arc anode attachment

¹ School of Astronautics, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, People's Republic of China
² Institute of Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, People's Republic of China
³ Ningbo Institute of Technology, Beihang University, Ningbo 315800, People's Republic of China

Funds: This work was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 11735004 and 12005010).

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Received Date: March 19, 2021
Revised Date: July 05, 2021
Accepted Date: July 06, 2021

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The attachment of the DC arc on the anode is usually affected by surface morphology such as protrusions due to ablation or melting deformation. A three-dimensional thermodynamic and chemical non-equilibrium model is used to numerically simulate the effect of artificially assumed surface protrusions on the arc anode attachment. The numerical simulation results show that the arc deflects toward the protrusions on the anode and attaches to them in a constricted mode, resulting in an increase in the temperature of the arc attachment region. The analysis shows that the presence of protrusion on the anode surface changes the electric field distribution, intensifies the degree of thermodynamic and chemical non-equilibrium in its vicinity, further influences the chemical kinetic process of the plasma around it, which is the main reason for the deflection of the arc toward the protrusions and the arc anode attachment in a constricted mode. In order to verify the numerical simulation results, verification experiments are also performed using similar size scale anode protrusion, and the results showed that the presence of protrusion can indeed cause the deflection of the arc and even cause the ablation of the protrusion.
- DC arc,
- arc anode attachment,
- anode protrusion,
- chemical non-equilibrium

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