Title :
Numerical Study of Arc Behavior in Miniature Circuit Breaker
Author :
Wu, Yi ; Rong, Mingzhe ; Yang, Fei ; Ma, Ruiguang ; Murphy, Anthony B. ; Liu, Zengchao ; Sun, Hao
Author_Institution :
State Key Lab. of Electr. Insulation & Power Equip., Xi´´an Jiaotong Univ., Xi´´an, China
Abstract :
Arc behavior is very important to the performance of a low-voltage circuit breaker. A 3-D arc model for a certain type of miniature circuit breaker is built and calculated in this paper. The arc evolution is described in detail according to the temperature distribution images from the simulation results.
Keywords :
arcs (electric); circuit breakers; temperature distribution; 3-D arc model; arc behavior; low-voltage circuit breaker; miniature circuit breaker; temperature distribution images; Atmospheric modeling; Circuit breakers; Integrated circuit modeling; Numerical models; Plasma temperature; Sun; Arc; miniature circuit breaker (MCB); simulation;
Journal_Title :
Plasma Science, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/TPS.2011.2159275
