Convoluted Arc With Flux Concentrator for Current Interruption

Three-dimensional Flux Prediction for a Dish Concentrator Cavity Receiver

2 BEng(Hons), PhD student, RSE, ANU. 3 BEng, Occupational Trainee, RSE, ANU. 4 Professor, School of Mathematical and Geospatial Sciences, RMIT University, GPO Box 2476 Melbourne 3001, Australia 5 BE(Hons)/BSc, PhD, Lecturer, RSE, ANU. 6 BSc (Eng), MSc (Eng), Engineer. Abstract This paper describes the development of ray tracing models for a 500 m dish concentrator. Two distinct types of model h...

Multi-megampere Current Interruption

Two approaches for using explosives to interrupt current flowing in solid conductors are described. One concept uses explosives to extrude the switch conductor into thin regions that fuse due to current in the switch. A preliminary scaling law is presented. The second approach employs dieiectric jets to sever current carrying conductors. A feasibility experiment and an improved design are descr...

Optimization-based design of a heat flux concentrator

To gain control over the diffusive heat flux in a given domain, one needs to engineer a thermal metamaterial with a specific distribution of the generally anisotropic thermal conductivity throughout the domain. Until now, the appropriate conductivity distribution was usually determined using transformation thermodynamics. By this way, only a few particular cases of heat flux control in simple d...

Great expectations or convoluted realities: artificial insemination in flux.

Contribution to the Optical Design of A Concentrator with Uniform Flux for Photovoltaic Panels

In this investigation the aim is to broaden the space of optics for Low Concentrating Photovoltaic applications. The main target is to achieve the concentration of sunlight uniformly over a large photovoltaic receiver. To solve this problem we implemented a Monte-Carlo method and defined a new parameter in order to facilitate the analysis of irradiance distributions. The geometric parameters to...