International audienceCalculated values of viscosity, thermal and electrical conductivities of plasma formed in mixtures of silver (Ag) and silica (SiO2) are presented. The calculations, which assume local thermodynamic equilibrium, are performed for three pressures (1, 10 and 30 atm) in the temperature range from 4,000 to 30,000 K. All the data for the potential interactions and the necessary formulations to obtain values of transport coefficients are given in details. For atmospheric pressure, five mixtures (100% Ag, 75% Ag and 25% SiO2, 50% Ag and 50% SiO2, 25% Ag and 75% SiO2, 100% SiO2) in weight percentage are studied. In order to analyse the pressure influence on the transport coefficients, three samples of Ag–SiO2 mixtures (100% Ag, 50% Ag and 50% SiO2, 100% SiO2) in weight percentage are discussed for pressures of 1, 10 and 30 atm. In addition for the test case of oxygen plasma, we compare the computation code results with values obtained by other authors: discrepancies are found and explained

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International audienceGas flow in porous media with a nonconstant porosity function provides a nonconservative Euler system. We propose a new class of schemes for such a system for the one-dimensional situations based on nonconservative fluxes preserving the steady-state solutions. We derive a second-order scheme using a splitting of the porosity function into a discontinuous and a regular part where the regular part is treated as a source term while the discontinuous part is treated with the nonconservative fluxes. We then present a classification of all the configurations for the Riemann problem solutions. In particularly, we carefully study the resonant situations when two eigenvalues are superposed. Based on the classification, we deal with the inverse Riemann problem and present algorithms to compute the exact solutions. We finally propose new Sod problems to test the schemes for the resonant situations where numerical simulations are performed to compare with the theoretical solutions. The schemes accuracy (first- and second-order) is evaluated comparing with a nontrivial steady-state solution with the numerical approximation and convergence curves are established

The purpose of this paper is to describe the influence of the silica sand grains on pressure during the energy release in a high breaking capacity (HBC) fuse. During the HBC fuse operation, the pressure evolution is the result of two opposite trends: the pressure increase due to the interaction of the silica plasma with the surrounding granular sand, and the pressure decrease due to the propagation of the pressure waves toward the porous medium. Due to the complex phenomena occurring during the current extinction by a fuse, two kinds of pressure are distinguished: the pressure inside the silica plasma and the pressure in the silica sand. From the simulations we show that the Forchheimer flow resistance is stronger than the Darcy flow resistance once the electric power is over 30% of the maximum value. A comparison of the calculated and measured pressures is made at various positions from the fuse element axis. Two different pressures are obtained experimentally: the pressure P SAND exerted on the sand grains due to the plasma pressure, and the pressure P GAS of the gas flowing through the interstices of the silica sand. We show that the experimental and calculated trends are similar and they both depend on the electric power level and the silica sand mean granulometry. The maximum pressures are observed at the same time as the maximum electric power levels. The ratio P SAND /P GAS is about 8 with P GAS values not exceeding 1.5 × 10 5 Pa.

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