Numerical Study of Thermal Back-flow in SF6 Puffer Circuit Breaker[J]. High voltageapparatus, 2000, (1): 19-21. DOI: 10.13296/j.1001-1609.hva.2000.01.006.
Numerical Study of Thermal Back-flow in SF6 Puffer Circuit Breaker
A mathematical model is built to analyze the thermal block and thermal back-flow happening in the are-extinguishing chamber of SF6 puffer circuit breaker during the short circuit current interruption. The numerical simulation for such model is performed by applying the modified fluid-in-cell method
and the SF6 gas flow property during the interrupting process is calculated. Then the effects of thermal back-flow and thermal block on interrupting characteristics of the circuit breaker are analyzed on the basis of the calculated results.