抄録
A numerical thermofluid model was developed for a simplified circuit breaker with POM or PTFE ablation phenomena to investigate their ablation effect on arc properties such as arc voltage, and temperature distribution. It is well known that polymer ablation occurs in actual circuit breakers, which markedly affects their current interruption capability. In this study, thermal plasma-polymer solid coupling phenomena such as melting and evaporation were calculated without any empirical model based on measurements unlike other existing numerical thermofluid model. Results showed that the ablated mass rate calculated with this model fairly agreed to the measurement. The influence of turbulent model on arc properties was also evaluated. As a result, it was confirmed that it was effective to consider the turbulent model.
