Anode jet in a high-current vacuum arc
| Autor: | Stephen Rowe, L. A. Zyul’kova, G. Sandolache, Sergey A. Popov, A. V. Schneider, A. B. Markov, Alexander V. Batrakov |
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| Rok vydání: | 2012 |
| Předmět: |
Jet (fluid)
Materials science Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous) Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena Plasma Vacuum arc Cathode Anode law.invention Arc (geometry) Physics::Plasma Physics law Electrode High Energy Physics::Experiment Atomic physics Current (fluid) |
| Zdroj: | Technical Physics. 57:938-944 |
| ISSN: | 1090-6525 1063-7842 |
| DOI: | 10.1134/s1063784212070183 |
| Popis: | A stable intense jet with a clear-cut bright sheath has been detected on the anode of a 10-ms-long high-current vacuum arc with a current amplitude of 15 kA. The jet is adjacent to the hot spot of a molten metal on the anode surface. The primary light of the jet is emitted by neutrals. The sheath of the jet is surrounded by an ion-induced diffuse glow. The anode jet arises from interaction between the cathode and anode plasmas. Because of this, the size of the jet inversely depends on the current of the arc and the jet becomes observable only by the end of the current pulse. This object (anode jet with a bright sheath) is well reproducible when the arc is initiated between copper-chromium electrodes. In the case of pure copper electrodes, such objects occur randomly and appear at long projections of the molten metal, where heat release is hampered, and at large drops moving in the interelectrode gap. This means that the anode evaporation intensity is crucial for the appearance of bright-sheath jets. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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