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Liquid dielectrics in an inhomogeneous pulsed electric field : dynamics, cavitation and related phenomena /

Written by leading experts in the field, the first edition of this textbook was the first of its kind to address numerous potential applications such as the technology of high-voltage insulation in pulsed inhomogeneous fields, and applications related to cavitation development in liquid dielectrics,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Shneider, Mikhail N. (Autor), Pekker, Mikhail (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol [England] (Temple Circus, Temple Way, Bristol BS1 6HG, UK) : IOP Publishing, [2020]
Edición:Second edition.
Colección:IOP series in plasma physics.
IOP ebooks. 2020 collection.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Introductory description of processes related to the negative pressure in liquids
  • 1.1. A qualitative picture of the formation of discontinuities in a liquid
  • 1.2. Negative pressure
  • 1.3. Rayleigh bubble
  • 1.4. Viscosity accounting in Rayleigh's equation for a bubble in a liquid
  • 1.5. Dynamics of a bubble in the liquid
  • 1.6. Zel'dovich-Fisher nucleation
  • 1.7. Qualitative description of the processes in a liquid dielectric in a non-uniform pulsed electric field
  • 1.8. Flat capacitor dipped in a dielectric fluid
  • 1.9. The polarization (Maxwell) time
  • 1.10. The flow induced in the vicinity of a needle-like electrode : a hydrostatic pressure
  • 2. Classic cavitation
  • 2.1. Definition of cavitation and formulation of the basic problem
  • 2.2. Cavitation in the subsonic flow of fluid in a pipe
  • 2.3. Condition for cavitation bubble formation near propeller blades
  • 2.4. Cavitation generated by acoustic and shock waves
  • 2.5. Surface tension of a curvilinear surface with a small radius of curvature
  • 2.6. A new look at nucleation
  • 3. The physical properties of liquid dielectrics
  • 3.1. Water
  • 3.2. Experimental data related to oil and some other liquid dielectrics
  • 3.3. Liquid helium
  • 4. A liquid dielectric in an electric field
  • 4.1. Dielectric as a system of dipoles
  • 4.2. The potential of a system of dipoles
  • 4.3. The dielectric constant
  • 4.4. The energy of the electric field
  • 4.5. Energy of a dielectric in an external electric field
  • 4.6. Dielectric ball in a homogeneous dielectric medium in an external constant electric field
  • 4.7. Polarizability of atoms and molecules
  • 4.8. Ponderomotive forces in liquid dielectrics
  • 4.9. Forces acting on the boundary between two dielectrics
  • 4.10. Forces acting on a boundary of a dielectric sphere
  • 5. Dynamics of a dielectric liquid in a non-uniform pulsed electric field
  • 5.1. System of equations and boundary conditions in prolate spheroidal coordinates
  • 5.2. Numerical results and discussions
  • 5.3. Flow arising at adiabatic switching of voltage and its rapid shutdown
  • 5.4. Linearized equations and example results
  • 5.5. Comparison of numerical results with measurements
  • 5.6. Initiation of cavitation and nanosecond breakdown in oil on water micro-droplets
  • 5.7. Qualitative analysis of a drop deformation in the pulsed electric field
  • 6. Cavitation in inhomogeneous pulsed electric fields
  • 6.1. Ponderomotive forces in the vicinity of a nanopore
  • 6.2. Nucleation in inhomogeneous pulsed electric fields
  • 6.3. Expansion of nanopores in an inhomogeneous pulsed electric field
  • 6.4. Concluding remarks for chapter 6
  • 7. Liquid helium in a non-uniform pulsed electric field
  • 7.1. Dynamics of liquid helium in a non-uniform pulsed electric field
  • 7.2. Regimes of cavitation inception in liquid helium
  • 7.3. Tunnel effect in liquid helium at negative pressure
  • 7.4. Possible limitations associated with the dielectric strength of liquid helium
  • 7.5. Conclusions to chapter 7
  • 8. Optical diagnostics in dielectric liquids in inhomogeneous pulsed fields
  • 8.1. Shadowgraph and Schlieren methods
  • 8.2. Rayleigh scattering on the cavitation region emerging in liquids
  • 8.3. Optical emission spectroscopy of nano- and sub-nanosecond discharge in liquids
  • 9. Breakdown in liquid in pulsed electric fields
  • 9.1. Brief overview of the experimental data
  • 9.2. Problems of the ionization model of the breakdown development in liquid
  • 9.3. Problems of the bubble breakdown model
  • 9.4. The cavitation discharge model and analysis of experimental data
  • 9.5. Qualitative picture of the nanosecond breakdown in liquids
  • 9.6. The area of breakdown initiation at a nanosecond voltage pulse in the vicinity of a needle-like electrode
  • 9.7. The problem of primary electrons.