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The transient temperature field existing about a cooled stationary electrical contact

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A numerical analysis is formulated and used to determine the transient temperature fields associated with Joule heating of a cooled stationary electrical contact. The contact is treated as a hemisphere. The field equations are developed using complex variables and conformal transforms, and the resulting equations are solved using finite differences.

Contours of constant temperature are given that show a maximum temperature located very close to the center of the contact patch; this qualitatively agrees with earlier findings of Holm.

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  1. Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, North Carolina State University, 27695-7910, Raleigh, NC, USA

    M. D. Bryant & Seik Oh

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Bryant, M.D., Oh, S. The transient temperature field existing about a cooled stationary electrical contact. Applied Scientific Research 42, 89–106 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00382531

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