滑动弧低温等离子体放电特性的数值模拟研究

滑动弧等离子体的电弧温度场、电场和导电区域尺寸是确定电子温度、电子密度、化学反应速率以及能量效率的重要参数.对气流量为1.43 L/min和6.42 L/min时50 Hz交流滑动弧放电的电参数进行了测量;用瞬态的电弧模型描述滑动弧的能量传递,并用近似的介质电导率和热扩散系数对模型进行简化,解决了由于电弧结构变化所导致的移动边界问题;模拟求得等离子体的电弧结构、电场强度和动态温度场等参数的演化.其中,电弧电场的模拟值与实验值基本符合,计算得到电弧轴心温度可以达到5700—6700 K.研究结果表明,气流直 关键词： 滑动弧等离子体 温度场 电场强度 导电半径     

电弧射流激励器工作特性仿真研究

为了在高超声速飞行器减阻中达到更好的减阻效果,设计了一种电弧射流等离子体激励器。采用有限元法求解非线性多物理方程,对此电弧射流等离子体激励器的工作特性进行了数值模拟,得到了激励器内部的电势、压力、温度和速度分布,综合分析了进气口气体速度、放电电流、激励器管道半径对电势、压力、温度和速度分布的影响。获得了全面的影响规律,通过仿真结果还得到:电弧射流等离子体激励器可产生最高温度为8638 K、最高速度为655 m/s的等离子体射流。当电流20 A,进气速度0.5 m/s,管道半径2.5 mm时,所需功率最小;当电流20 A,入口气体流速5 m/s,管道半径2.5 mm时,出口处平均温度最高;当电流20 A,进口气体速度10 m/s,管道半径2.5 mm时,出口处平均速度最大。并对仿真得到的放电电压进行了实验验证,在等离子体参数相似的情况下,实验结果与仿真结果吻合较好。     

基于Kriging模型的水中放电沉积能量优化分析

水中脉冲放电过程较为复杂,放电参数与放电沉积能量之间没有明确的函数关系。为了获得最佳沉积能量,明晰不同放电参数相互作用对沉积能量的影响,获得最佳放电参数组合,本文搭建了水中高压脉冲放电实验平台,结合Kriging代理模型探究了电压、电极间距和电导率三种放电参数对水中放电沉积能量的影响;利用遗传算法进行全局寻优,确定了最佳放电参数组合。研究结果表明：通过交叉验证评估该模型的均方根误差为6.95%,满足精度要求;外加电压一定时,在电极间距和电导率的协同作用下,沉积能量的变化呈现多峰值特性;在电压、电极间距和电导率分别为17 kV、2.28 mm和0.8 mS/cm的条件下产生的沉积能量最大,为最佳参数组合;通过实验验证了在最佳点的预测值和实际值相对偏差在8%以内。     

面向激光等离子体尾波加速的毛细管放电实验研究

具有合适径向密度分布的等离子体通道可以用于超短超强激光导引,这使得等离子体通道在激光尾波加速中有着重要的应用.本文介绍了在上海交通大学激光等离子体实验室开展的毛细管放电和光导引实验.通过光谱展宽法测量了充氦气的放电毛细管中的等离子体密度分布,在长度为3 cm、内径为300μm的毛细管中实现了轴向均匀,径向呈抛物线型的等离子体密度分布.通过改变放电延时和喷气时长,确定和优化了产生等离子体通道的参数区间,得到的最大通道深度为28μm,与实验中使用的激光焦斑半径匹配.在此基础之上,开展了不同能量的激光脉冲在放电等离子体通道中的导引研究,结果发现当通道深度与焦斑半径匹配时,激光可以不散焦地在通道中传输,实现激光导引.这项研究为未来的激光尾波级联加速和锁相加速等研究奠定了基础.     

光谱法研究闪电回击放电通道的电阻及电流的热效应

闪电放电通道的电阻及电流产生的热效应对雷电灾害研究以及防护设计都具有重要意义,放电通道的热力学特性与其等离子体辐射光谱密切相关。利用无狭缝摄谱仪获得的两次云对地多回击闪电放电的等离子体辐射光谱,依据谱线波长、强度等信息,结合同步地面电场变化资料,应用空气等离子体传输理论,计算了闪电回击放电通道的电导率、峰值电流、核心通道半径,进而得到了闪电回击等离子体通道单位长度的电阻、峰值电流时的热功率及在回击初始前5 μs内通道储存的热能。并与常规金属导体进行比较,分析了闪电回击放电在峰值电流时等离子体通道的热功率与电阻、电流平方之间的相关性关系。结果表明：利用光谱研究得到的闪电放电通道的电阻为0.04～8.41 Ω·m-1、峰值电流时的热功率为0.88×108～2.20×108 W·m-1、回击初始前5 μs内通道储存的热能为1.47×102～3.66×102 J·m-1,以上结果与文献报道的利用其他方法得到的结果相比,在合理的范围内;与常规金属导体相比,闪电回击放电等离子体通道在峰值电流时的热功率与电阻成正比,但与电流的平方呈指数减小的关系;由于闪电等离子体通道的电阻与温度的3/2次方成反比,通常回击放电通道中峰值电流越大,通道温度越高,而电阻会迅速降低,因此热功率也会急剧减小。此结论进一步验证了采用欧姆加热方法加热等离子体的致命缺点。     

同轴枪放电等离子体电流片的运动特性研究

同轴枪放电可以产生高速度、高密度的等离子体射流,在天体物理、核物理等研究领域具有广泛的应用.基于同轴枪放电等离子体运动的"雪犁模型"分析,本实验通过对等离子体光电信号和磁信号的测量及放电照片的拍摄,研究了不同放电电流和气压对同轴枪放电等离子体电流片的运动特性、电流通道分布的影响.实验结果发现:一次放电过程中,气压为10 Pa、放电电流为35.7—69.8 kA时,随着放电电流的增加,等离子体喷射速度增加,输运距离与离子携带的轴向动能成正比,大电流条件下,等离子体喷出枪口时易于在枪底端形成新的电流通道;气压为5—40 Pa、放电电流为49.8 kA时,随着气压的增加,等离子体喷射速度减小,输运距离缩短,高气压下,等离子体喷出枪口时在枪底端未产生新的放电通道,这与放电过程中遗留在枪底端的带电粒子和电流片渗漏残留在枪内的中性粒子共同形成的阻抗通道有关;电流反向时,二次放电击穿位置发生在电极头部,放电过程中存在多次放电现象.     

等离子体电极电光开关大面积辉光放电的产生及其特性

 在电光开关的晶体两侧，用辉光放电产生的高电导率透明等离子体作为施加开关脉冲电压的电极，可大大增加开关的通光口径。利用设计建造的一个80mm×80mm口径的等离子体电极电光开关，研究了用于电光开关中的大面积辉光放电的产生方法及放电特性。描述了等离子体电极普克尔盒的结构、放电室和电极的几何尺寸、放电电路及其参数，实验观测了预电离和工作气压对放电的影响。     

水中针-板结构小能量脉冲火花放电特性北大核心CSCD

开展了J量级系统储能下电脉冲参数对水中火花放电特性影响研究。驱动源采用参数可调的固态重频纳秒脉冲电源,放电负载为水中针-板结构(间距1 mm),在低重频条件(约5 Hz)下进行实验。通过调节放电参数、拍摄高速阴影图像、光谱诊断以及声信号测量,研究水中脉冲放电的物理特性,得到不同放电参数下放电演化规律及其对声学、光谱特性影响。实验发现:在J量级储能下,放电通道连通两极后,回路电流在几百ns内快速上升至10 A左右,随后缓慢下降,持续50~60μs。发现预设脉宽对放电影响较大,短脉宽条件下放电会被电源固态开关强制截断出现反向放电,而长脉宽条件下放电通道在后期变得不稳定甚至熄弧中断,出现气泡中二次放电现象。辐射光谱揭示了更多等离子体信息,推断通道电子密度在1018 cm-3量级,随着脉宽增加,特征谱线强度增加,表明活性粒子数密度增加,但粒子种类不变。短脉冲(<150μs)作用下产生的脉冲声波的特征宽度在110~150μs,而当脉宽继续增大,声波脉宽并不继续增加而是保持不变,保持在150μs左右。研究结果对水中小能量火花放电的机理研究有一定参考价值,为水声学、液相等离子体等领域的应用提供思路。     

光谱法研究闪电通道的导电特性

依据无狭缝光栅摄谱仪在青海获得的云对地闪电回击光谱信息,结合空气等离子体传输理论,用四种不同方法计算了同一闪电放电通道的电导率。结果表明：各种方法所得闪电核心通道的电导率数量级均为104 S·m-1;且同一通道内的电导率随通道高度的增加有减小的趋势;通道内电子与一次、二次电离离子的碰撞以及它们各自的碰撞对通道电导率的贡献不可忽略;用碰撞积分的方法计算闪电核心通道的电导率结果更为合理。在通道电导率的基础上估算了回击通道的放电电流,与辐射峰值电场实验资料所得的相应峰值电流相比,其结果在合理的范围内, 并进一步探讨了温度与电流放电特性的相关性, 为研究闪电放电电流提供了一条可行的途径。     

气体火花开关放电通道半径及电阻测量

搭建低电感实验回路平台,利用高速分幅相机拍摄火花开关放电通道发展过程,分析照片光强和放电通道半径的对应关系,根据图片光强测定不同时刻放电通道的半径,提出适合实验条件的放电通道半径计算公式。依据高压探头和Pearson线圈测量得到的放电通道电压和电流波形,计算放电通道的电阻,再利用测量的放电通道半径进而得到其电导率。放电通道半径随着放电通道的发展逐渐增大,有饱和的趋势,放电电流2 kA时电流峰值处放电通道半径约0.6 mm;随着放电电流峰值的增大,放电通道电阻下降速率增大,达到稳定值所需的时间减小,稳定值也随之减小,其电阻稳定值最小能达到0.08 。     

Model of pulsed electric discharge expansion in dense gas taking into account electron and radiative thermal conductivities. I. Expansion mechanism

Using an ionization sensor, it was found that weakly ionized plasma with an ionization degree larger than 10^?6 is formed under exposure to UV radiation of a high-current pulsed electric discharge in gas (air, nitrogen, xenon, and krypton) at atmospheric pressure at a distance of ～1.2–2.5 cm from the discharge boundary. It was shown that the structure of such discharge includes, in addition to the discharge channel, a dense shell and a shock wave, also a region of weakly ionized and excited gas before the shock wave front. The mechanism of discharge expansion in dense gas is ionization and heating of gas involved in the discharge due to absorption of the UV energy flux from the discharge channel and the flux of the thermal energy transferred from the discharge channel to the discharge shell due to electron thermal conductivity.     

Model of pulsed electric discharge expansion in dense gas taking into account electron and radiative thermal conductivities. II. Energy balance and equation

Using an ionization sensor, it was found that weakly ionized plasma with an ionization degree larger than 10⁻⁶ is formed under exposure to UV radiation of a high-current pulsed electric discharge in gas (air, nitrogen, xenon, and krypton) at atmospheric pressure at a distance of ∼1.2–2.5 cm from the discharge boundary. It was shown that the structure of such discharge includes, in addition to the discharge channel, a dense shell and a shock wave, also a region of weakly ionized and excited gas before the shock wave front. The mechanism of discharge expansion in dense gas is ionization and heating of gas involved in the discharge due to absorption of the UV energy flux from the discharge channel and the flux of the thermal energy transferred from the discharge channel to the discharge shell due to electron thermal conductivity.     

Technique for determining the channel expansion rate at the stage of electrical breakdown using a grounded intercepting ring

A method is described that allows one to study the conductivity dynamics of a channel produced by explosion of a wire at the stage of electrical breakdown. Experimental data have been presented for the expansion rate of the conductivity channel in extended (up to 1.9 m long) arbitrarily shaped gapes that were produced by an exploding copper wire 90 µm in diameter. The initial stored energy and applied voltage were, respectively, 2.7–3.7 kJ and 8–10 kV. It has been shown that the expansion rate of the conductivity channel coincides with the propagation rate of a shock wave and is inversely proportional to the square root of its radius and propagation time. The radius of the shock wave is a linear function of the square root of its propagation rate. Experimental data are in satisfactory agreement with the calculated results obtained by Lin [18] in terms of the model of an intense shock wave. It has been shown that the diameter of the conductivity channel depends on the position of the trailing edge of the shock wave.     

Analysis of Plasmadynamic Nanosecond-Range Processes in the Formation of Shock Waves from Pulsed Discharges

We have studied the dynamics of the plasma glow of pulsed discharges (sliding surface discharge and combined volume discharge with plasma electrodes) in the nanosecond range (100–12 000 ns) in stationary air and in the flow behind the front of a plane shock wave with Mach numbers 1.7–5.0 in the shock tube channel. The temporal characteristics of the flow, the radiation spectra, and the discharge currents in air are compared in the pressure range 5–150 Torr, a pulsed voltage of 20–30 kV, and a current of about 1 kA. It is shown that the time of current under various conditions does not exceed 400 ns, and the duration of the glow can reach a few microseconds. It is shown that as a result of energy supply near the planar shock wave front, the decay of discontinuities occurs with the formation of shock waves and contact surfaces. The positions of the plasma glow regions are compared with the positions of discontinuity surfaces of numerically calculated gasdynamic parameters in the flow.     

Modeling of pulsed spark discharge in water and its application to well cleaning

This paper presents a simulation model for the generation of strong pressure wave by means of pulsed spark discharge in water and its application to well cleaning. In the simulation model, one-dimensional time-dependent magnetohydrodynamic equations are coupled to a capacitive discharge circuit equation. A cylindrical conducting spark channel formed by electrical breakdown of water gap between a pair of electrodes is treated as a load of which resistance and inductance are allowed to change with time. For describing the spark channel properties accurately, precise calculations on thermodynamic properties and electrical conductivity are included in the simulation model. The simulation results show an excellent agreement with the experimentally measured shock pressure as well as the current and voltage waveforms. The simulation reveals that Joule heating of the spark channel during the very early phase of electrical discharge plays a key role in the formation of shock wave in water. The voltage on a capacitor at breakdown, the circuit inductance, and the resistance of the spark channel are found to be the most important parameters for the shock wave formation. With this technique, a pilot test for the cleaning of a clogged well has been performed in a water well which was constructed as a test-bed for riverbank filtration near the Anseong-cheon (river) in Korea. Well treatments have been carried out with an electrical energy of 510 J stored on a pulsed power system, at which the maximum shock pressure is measured to be around 7 MPa at the position of the well screen, i.e. 0.1 m away from the spark gap. A slug test shows 2.9 times improvement in the hydraulic conductivity of the well, which, combined with a visual inspection inside the well using an underwater camera, clearly demonstrates that the strong pressure wave generated by underwater spark discharge can effectively remove almost all incrustations formed in the well screen and thus improve well performance. Operating parameters for controlling the strength of shock pressure are discussed using the simulation model for extensive applications of the present technique to various types of water wells.     

Energy partitioning in laser-induced millimeter-sized spherical cavitation up to the fourth oscillation

To investigate the energy partitioning up to the fourth oscillation of a millimeter-scale spherical cavitation bubble induced by laser, we used nanosecond laser pulses to generate highly spherical cavitation bubbles and shadowgraphs to measure the radius-time curve. Using the extended Gilmore model and considering the continuous condensation of the vapor in the bubble, the time evolution of the bubble radius, bubble wall velocity, and pressure in the bubble is calculated till the 4th oscillation. Using Kirkwood-Bethe hypothesis, the evolution of velocity and pressure of shock wave at the optical breakdown, the first and second collapses are calculated. The shock wave energy at the breakdown and bubble collapse is directly calculated by numerical method. We found the simulated radius-time curve fits well with experimental data for the first four oscillations. The energy partition at the breakdown is the same as that in previous studies, the ratio of shock wave energy to bubble energy is about 2:1. In the first collapse and the second collapse, the ratio of shock wave energy to bubble energy is 14.54:1 and 2.81:1 respectively. In the third and fourth collapses, the ratio is less, namely than 1.5:1 and 0.42:1 respectively. The formation mechanism of the shock wave at the collapse is analyzed. The breakdown shock wave is mainly driven by the expansion of the supercritical liquid resulting from the thermalization of the energy of the free electrons in the plasma, and the collapse shock wave is mainly driven by the compressed liquid around the bubble.     

On the possibility of controlling transonic profile flow with energy deposition by means of a plasma-sheet nanosecond discharge

A way of effectively affecting the gasdynamic structures of a transonic flow over a surface by means of instantaneous local directed energy deposition into a near-surface layer is proposed. Experimental investigations into the influence of a pulsed high-current nanosecond surface discharge of the “plasma sheet” type on gas fast flow with a shock wave near the surface are carried out. The self-localization of energy deposition into a low-pressure region in front of the shock wave is described. Based on this effect, a facility for automated energy deposition into a dynamic region bounded by the moving shock front can be designed. The limiting value of the specific energy deposition on the surface in front of the shock wave is found. With the help of the direct-shadow method, an unsteady quasi-two-dimensional discontinuous flow arising when a plasma sheet is initiated on the wall in a flow with a plane shock wave is studied. By numerically solving the two-dimensional nonstationary equations of gas dynamics, the influence of the energy of a pulsed nanosecond discharge, which is applied in the frequency regime, on the aerodynamic characteristics of a high-lift profile is investigated. It is ascertained that the energy delivered to the gas before the closing shock wave in a local supersonic region that is located in the neighborhood of the profile contour in zones extended along the profile considerably decreases the wave drag of the profile.     

基于等离子体气动激励的斜劈诱导激波控制

基于弧光等离子体气动激励,采用不同的放电通道间距、放电通道数、放电直流输入电压、斜劈劈角、有无磁场作用等激励条件,实验研究了在超音速来流条件下(马赫数为2.2)斜激波位置、角度、强度的变化规律。结果表明:施加等离子体气动激励后,激波的起始位置平均前移1～8 mm,激波角平均减小4%～8%,激波强度平均减弱8%～26%。这主要是由于等离子体气动激励产生高温高压的表面等离子体层,使边界层分离点逆气流前移,改变了原有激波系结构,使原有的激波位置前移,激波角减小;同时由于局部的高温导致当地音速增大,使得当地马赫数减小,上述两个原因均可导致激波强度减弱。     

Compton散射下强激光等离子体空气冲击波波前的传输特性

 根据球对称激光等离子体空气冲击波在自由空间中传输的约束条件，对多光子非线性Compton散射的强激光等离子体空气冲击波波前的传输特性进行了研究，给出了散射下空气冲击波波前的运动方程，并进行了数值模拟。结果表明：该冲击波的衰减过程不仅与爆炸源和爆炸过程的特性、释放总能量、空气的弹性有关，而且还与散射有关，散射效应使冲击波的初始半径增大，衰减过程加快，能量转移率提高；数值模拟与实验结果符合得很好。