Title |
Analysis of the Cold Gas Flow in Puffer Type Circuit Breaker |
Authors |
김홍규(Kim, Hong-Gyu) ; 신승록(Sin, Seung-Rok) ; 정현교(Jeong, Hyeon-Gyo) ; 김두성(Kim, Du-Seong) ; 권기영(Gwon, Gi-Yeong) |
Keywords |
circuit breaker ; moving boundary ; shock wave ; Euler equation ; FVFLIC method |
Abstract |
There are many difficult problems in analyzing the gas flow in puffer type circuit breaker such as complex geometry, moving boundary, shock wave and so on. To predict the interruption performance accurately, these should be considered in the simulation. In this paper, the analysis procedure of the cold gas flow in the circuit breaker is presented. Euler equation is solved by FVFLIC method which is an explicit time difference scheme for an unsteady flow computation. Moving boundaries are treated with a cell elimination-addition technique. The pressure and density in front of piston are calculated from the rate of the cell volume change. The presented method is applied to the real circuit breaker model and the pressure in front of the piston is good agreement with the experimental one. |