Explosion symmetry improvement of polyimide-coated tungsten wire in vacuum on negative discharge facility
Explosion symmetry improvement of polyimide-coated tungsten wire in vacuum on negative discharge facility
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负放电装置真空中聚酰亚胺涂层钨丝爆炸对称性的改进
DOI:
10.1063/1.5007210
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发表时间:
2018
影响因子:
2.2
通讯作者:
Qiu Mengtong
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作者:
Li Mo;Wu Jian;Lu Yihan;Li Xingwen;Li Yang;Qiu Mengtong
Tungsten wire explosion is very asymmetric when fast current rate and insulated coatings are both applied on negative discharge facility using a 24-mm-diameter cathode geometry, which is commonly used on mega-ampere facilities. It is inferred, based on an analytical treatment of the guiding center drift and COMSOL simulations, that the large negative radial electric field causes early voltage breakdown and terminates energy deposition into the wire core on the anode side of the wire. After the anode side is short circuited, the radial electric field along the wire surface on the cathode side will change its polarity and thus leading to additional energy deposition into the wire core. This change causes ∼10 times larger energy deposition and ∼14 times faster explosion velocity in the cathode side than the anode side. In order to reduce this asymmetry, a hollow cylindrical cathode geometry was used to reverse the polarity of radial electric field and was optimized to use on multi-MA facilities. In this case...