| 1) Electrical Field Analysis
Static electric field concept, basic electrode systems, experimental and computational methods for field analysis
2) Discharge phenomena
Electrical breakdown in gasses, Townsend’s breakdown criterion, Paschen’s law, Streamer or “Canal” mechanisms,
Breakdown in non-uniform field and corona,
Electrical breakdown of dielectric liquids and solids
3) Experimental studies
Insulators and materials, dielectric measurements,
Generation and measurement of high AC, DC and impulse voltages and currents,
Electrostatic generators, testing transformers and series resonant circuits, impulse voltage and current generator circuits, spherical and uniform field gaps. |