A Pressure Based Compressible Solver for Electric Arc-plasma Simulation
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https://doi.org/10.14311/ppt.2023.3.159Keywords:
electric arc, plasma, compressible, pressure-basedAbstract
The electric arc discharge in a liquid medium is used in several applications such as the sterilization of the liquid by UV radiation, the fracturing of rocks by shock wave, the circuit breakers in oil bath or the forming of mechanical parts. Thus, describing the physics of the arc in a liquid and in particular its interaction with a liquid interface is an important issue to better characterize this type of configuration. However, such a challenging task requires to couple high-fidelity solver for compressible two-phase flows with liquid phase change and a plasma solver to describe the plasma and its interaction with the bubble. To study this type of medium, we use a compressible formulation of the fluid equations. For this purpose, a pressure based solver has been developed for the computation of the energy conservation equation. Moreover, our numerical model uses the immersed boundary method to simulate the solid electrodes. The numerical model is briefly described in this paper and the first results of the electric arc discharge in steam water are presented. To our knowledge this pressure based model has never been used to describe plasmas and electric arc discharge.
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