Liquid dielectrics in an inhomogeneous pulsed electric field : dynamics, cavitation and related phenomena /: dynamics, cavitation and related phenomena. ([2020])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Mikhail N. Shneider, Mikhail Pekker.
• Authors: Shneider, Mikhail N; Pekker, Mikhail
• Other Names: Institute of Physics (Great Britain), publisher.
• Contents: 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.
• Edition: Second edition
• Publisher Details: Bristol [England] (Temple Circus, Temple Way, Bristol BS1 6HG, UK) : IOP Publishing
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 PDF (various pagings), illustrations (some color)
• Subjects: 621.381; Liquid dielectrics; Electric insulators and insulation -- Liquids; Electric fields; Atomic & molecular physics; SCIENCE / Physics / Atomic & Molecular
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780750323727; 0750323728; 9780750323710
• Related ISBNs: 075032371X; 9780750323703; 9780750323734
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references.; Note: Title from PDF title page (viewed on December 9, 2019).
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