What initiates the explosion of a current-carrying conductor?
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- 1 April 2002
- journal article
- Published by Pleiades Publishing Ltd in JETP Letters
- Vol. 75 (8) , 373-377
Abstract
It is shown that the explosion of a conductor heated by a high-power current pulse is initiated by the nuclei of liquid phase that appear in the layer of a supersaturated vapor surrounding the liquid current-carrying core. The instant of electric explosion and the expansion velocity predicted by this scenario are confirmed by the experimental and computational data on current-induced heating of a tungsten conductor.Keywords
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