English

Modeling of High-Gradient Vacuum Breakdown

Computational Physics 2014-10-27 v1 Plasma Physics

Abstract

Comsol finite element technique was applied to study heating and cooling of a microspot on the cathode surface. The reasons why there seems to be no common model for vacuum arcs, in spite of the importance of this field and the level of effort expended over more than one hundred years, were explored.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1410.6501,
  title  = {Modeling of High-Gradient Vacuum Breakdown},
  author = {A. Ainabayev and B. Berdenova and J. Norem and Z. Insepov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1410.6501},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

8 pages, 3 figures

R2 v1 2026-06-22T06:34:39.345Z