{"title":"Numerical investigation of thermal damage in rocks under high-voltage electric pulse","authors":"Xiaohua Zhu, Siqi Liu, Weiji Liu, Xin Zhou, Wuji Tang","doi":"10.1002/ctpp.202400058","DOIUrl":"10.1002/ctpp.202400058","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The high-voltage electric pulse fracturing (HVEPF) technology represents a novel and highly promising approach in rock fracturing. The investigation of thermal damage inflicted upon rocks by high-voltage electrical pulses under multi-physical field coupling is of great significance in the development of deep geothermal energy. This study establishes a damage model for rocks under electric fragmentation conditions by integrating electric field, heat transfer field, and solid mechanics field. Based on the developed damage model, the insulating properties, temperature variations, and forms of damage of rocks during electric fracturing are explored. Subsequently, the influence of voltage on rock damage status is investigated. The findings reveal that damage to the rock does not occur immediately after electrical breakdown; rather, it increases with the growth of current and temperature within the breakdown channel. Initial damage occurs at the ends of the breakdown channel, followed closely by damage in the central region of the channel. The predominant form of damage in rocks is tensile failure, with shear failure playing a secondary role, and the volume of damage increases with voltage. These results elucidate the characteristics of rock damage during electric fracturing, providing valuable insights for the engineering application of electric fracturing techniques.</p>","PeriodicalId":10700,"journal":{"name":"Contributions to Plasma Physics","volume":"65 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-07-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141586277","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cover Picture: Contrib. Plasma Phys. 05/2024","authors":"","doi":"10.1002/ctpp.202490009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ctpp.202490009","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Yuri Lvovich Klimontovich in Moscow in 1999. Photo by M. Bonitz. Fig. 1 of the paper by Michael Bonitz et al. https://doi.org/10.1002/ctpp.202400014\u0000 \u0000 <figure>\u0000 <div><picture>\u0000 <source></source></picture><p></p>\u0000 </div>\u0000 </figure></p>","PeriodicalId":10700,"journal":{"name":"Contributions to Plasma Physics","volume":"64 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ctpp.202490009","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141487942","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Growth mechanism of high-voltage electric pulse rock breaking 3D plasma channel in drilling fluid environment","authors":"Xiaohua Zhu, Siqi Liu, Weiji Liu, Xin Zhou, Wuji Tang","doi":"10.1002/ctpp.202400035","DOIUrl":"10.1002/ctpp.202400035","url":null,"abstract":"<p>High-voltage electric pulse rock breaking has excellent potential for exploiting deep geothermal resources. Numerous researchers have conducted experimental studies on this topic, particularly in rock mechanics, where the breakdown occurs. However, there has been limited scholarly research on drilling fluid. Therefore, the study focuses on the drilling fluid suitable for electric pulse drilling, considering the characteristics of electric pulse rock breaking, which differ from traditional rock breaking. The study focused on the impact of various drilling fluid parameters on the effectiveness of electric impulse rock breaking using red sandstone as the experimental material. This was investigated using the finite element method, and indoor electric rock-breaking tests were conducted in a drilling fluid environment. The results indicate that the plasma channel mainly grows in the permeable layer of the drilling fluid, resulting in shallow rock breaking depth in the drilling fluid environment. The pore permeated by drilling fluid guides the growth of the plasma channel. The higher the conductivity of the drilling fluid, the closer the ion channel of rock breaking by electric pulse is to the rock surface. This results in a smaller crushing volume and shallower damage depth, which is more detrimental to rock breaking by an electric pulse. The viscosity of drilling fluid can impede the breakdown to some extent. In this paper, the influence of drilling fluid parameters on electro-pulse rock-breaking technology is preliminarily studied, which has significant reference value for the selection of actual drilling fluid.</p>","PeriodicalId":10700,"journal":{"name":"Contributions to Plasma Physics","volume":"64 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-06-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141511199","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Classical and quantum theory of fluctuations for many-particle systems out of equilibrium","authors":"E. Schroedter, M. Bonitz","doi":"10.1002/ctpp.202400015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ctpp.202400015","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Correlated classical and quantum many-particle systems out of equilibrium are of high interest in many fields, including dense plasmas, correlated solids, and ultracold atoms. Accurate theoretical description of these systems is challenging both, conceptionally and with respect to computational resources. While for classical systems, in principle, exact simulations are possible via molecular dynamics, this is not the case for quantum systems. Alternatively, one can use many-particle approaches such as hydrodynamics, kinetic theory, or nonequilibrium Green functions (NEGF). However, NEGF exhibit a very unfavorable cubic scaling of the CPU time with the number of time steps. An alternative is the G1–G2 scheme [N. Schlünzen et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. <b>124</b>, 076601 (2020)] which allows for NEGF simulations with time linear scaling, however, at the cost of large memory consumption. The reason is the need to store the two-particle correlation function. This problem can be overcome for a number of approximations by reformulating the kinetic equations in terms of fluctuations – an approach that was developed, for classical systems, by Yu.L. Klimontovich [JETP <b>33</b>, 982 (1957)]. Here, we present an overview of his ideas and extend them to quantum systems. In particular, we demonstrate that this quantum fluctuations approach can reproduce the nonequilibrium <i>GW</i> approximation [E. Schroedter <i>et al</i>., Cond. Matt. Phys. <b>25</b>, 23401 (2022)] promising high accuracy at low computational cost which arises from an effective semiclassical stochastic sampling procedure. We also demonstrate how to extend the approach to the two-time exchange-correlation functions and the density response properties. [E. Schroedter <i>et al</i>., Phys. Rev. B <b>108</b>, 205109 (2023)]. The results are equivalent to the Bethe–Salpeter equation for the two-time exchange-correlation function when the generalized Kadanoff-Baym ansatz with Hartree-Fock propagators is applied [E. Schroedter and M. Bonitz, phys. stat. sol. (b) 2024, 2300564].</p>","PeriodicalId":10700,"journal":{"name":"Contributions to Plasma Physics","volume":"64 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ctpp.202400015","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141488582","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Experimental investigation of styrene destruction by DBD plasma and its conversion pathways","authors":"Huan Zheng, Guohua Ni, Hongmei Sun, Yanjun Zhao, Siyuan Sui, Zhongyang Ma","doi":"10.1002/ctpp.202400010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ctpp.202400010","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This work was devoted to the investigation of the contribution of various species in plasma to styrene decomposition. Different background gases (air, argon, nitrogen, and oxygen) and plasma reactor (in-plasma, post-plasma, and post-plasma with buffer tube) were employed in this experiment. The results showed that degradation and polymerization of styrene occur simultaneously in the plasma treatment process. In the discharge zone, the bombardment of electrons and energetic particles on styrene and its degradation intermediates played a role in breaking its weak bond energy and promoting their conversion. The short-lived reactive species with high oxidation potential in plasma were the prerequisite for complete degradation of styrene, due to its ability of breaking bonds with large bond energies, such as benzene ring. Away from the discharge zone, long-lived reactive oxygen species further oxidized and degraded styrene, and its intermediates outside the discharge zone, promoting their mineralization.</p>","PeriodicalId":10700,"journal":{"name":"Contributions to Plasma Physics","volume":"64 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142642189","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Resonant and nonresonant excitation of waves in a planar magnetosonic flow","authors":"Anna Perelomova","doi":"10.1002/ctpp.202400033","DOIUrl":"10.1002/ctpp.202400033","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Forced propagation of perturbations in a magnetosonic wave are considered. The driving force may be caused by stimulated Mandelstam–Brillouin scattering of optic waves or by intense magnetosonic exciter. Some heating-cooling function which takes into account radiative cooling and unspecified heating is taken into consideration, as well as nonlinearity of a medium. Both these factors make the excitation particular. The analytical and numerical evaluations reveal that forced oscillations differ essentially from the free propagation and depend on a number of dimensionless parameters such as the ratio of speed of exciter to the eigen speed of excited wave, the ratio of speed of an excited wave to its eigen speed, and the dimensionless magnitude of an exciter. Forced excitation is resonant if speed of an exciter coincides with the eigen speed of excited wave but may give rise to the excited perturbations with the speed different from the eigen one. The preliminary evaluations may be helpful for the controlled excitation of perturbations in natural and laboratory plasma systems and indication of the parameters of an exciter.</p>","PeriodicalId":10700,"journal":{"name":"Contributions to Plasma Physics","volume":"65 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-06-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141367280","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Marlene Rosenberg, James Dufty, Peter Hartmann, Zoltán Donkó
{"title":"Strongly coupled Coulomb systems: Honoring Ken Golden and Gabor Kalman","authors":"Marlene Rosenberg, James Dufty, Peter Hartmann, Zoltán Donkó","doi":"10.1002/ctpp.202400068","DOIUrl":"10.1002/ctpp.202400068","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":10700,"journal":{"name":"Contributions to Plasma Physics","volume":"64 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-06-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141367637","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Radially polarized femtosecond laser interaction with unmagnetized plasma slab and symmetric modes for enhanced terahertz field generation","authors":"Himank Sagar, Suresh C. Sharma","doi":"10.1002/ctpp.202400020","DOIUrl":"10.1002/ctpp.202400020","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We consider the excitation of terahertz (THz) electromagnetic fields by interaction of radially polarized laser pulses of diverse profiles with a homogenous plasma density slab. We utilize the properties of the laser pulse to generate THz fields in a plasma slab. It is shown that the radial ponderomotive force exerted by laser imparts an oscillatory velocity to plasma electrons and drives a nonlinear current in azimuthal direction exciting THz electromagnetic fields in the plasma slab. The dependence of the excited radial electric field and azimuthal magnetic field on axial and radial parameters of the plasmas lab, as well as on the slab thickness and laser pulse width size, is investigated. It is demonstrated that the terahertz fields are generated most efficiently with a frequency close to the plasma frequency. It is also shown that the intensity of the excited fields may be optimized and controlled by the plasma slab and laser pulse parameters. Rectangular-triangular, super-Gaussian, and sinusoidal lasers exhibit a significantly steeper radial gradient of ponderomotive potential in comparison with other laser profiles, and excite intense radial electric fields and generate azimuthal magnetic fields in plasma slab. The numerical results closely follow the scaling laws and match with previous experimental and simulation results.</p>","PeriodicalId":10700,"journal":{"name":"Contributions to Plasma Physics","volume":"64 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-06-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141372706","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"First results of multi-fluid modeling of detached hydrogen plasmas in a linear plasma device using fluid code LINDA-NU","authors":"Kento Sugiura, Taichi Ido, Hirohiko Tanaka, Hiroki Natsume, Shota Masuda, Kazuo Hoshino, Keiji Sawada, Noriyasu Ohno","doi":"10.1002/ctpp.202300150","DOIUrl":"10.1002/ctpp.202300150","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In order to simulate hydrogen (H) plasma in the linear plasma device NAGDIS-II, we have modified the fluid code LINDA-NU to allow the simultaneous calculation of multiple ion species consisting of hydrogen atomic ions (<span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <msup>\u0000 <mi>H</mi>\u0000 <mo>+</mo>\u0000 </msup>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 <annotation>$$ {mathrm{H}}^{+} $$</annotation>\u0000 </semantics></math>) and molecular ions (<span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <msubsup>\u0000 <mi>H</mi>\u0000 <mn>2</mn>\u0000 <mo>+</mo>\u0000 </msubsup>\u0000 <mo>,</mo>\u0000 <msubsup>\u0000 <mi>H</mi>\u0000 <mn>3</mn>\u0000 <mo>+</mo>\u0000 </msubsup>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 <annotation>$$ {mathrm{H}}_2^{+},{mathrm{H}}_3^{+} $$</annotation>\u0000 </semantics></math>). In this simulation, H and <span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <msub>\u0000 <mi>H</mi>\u0000 <mn>2</mn>\u0000 </msub>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 <annotation>$$ {mathrm{H}}_2 $$</annotation>\u0000 </semantics></math> neutrals are assumed to be uniformly distributed in space in order to obtain initial qualitative results. The fraction of <span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <msubsup>\u0000 <mi>H</mi>\u0000 <mn>3</mn>\u0000 <mo>+</mo>\u0000 </msubsup>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 <annotation>$$ {mathrm{H}}_3^{+} $$</annotation>\u0000 </semantics></math> ions increases as the <span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <msub>\u0000 <mi>H</mi>\u0000 <mn>2</mn>\u0000 </msub>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 <annotation>$$ {mathrm{H}}_2 $$</annotation>\u0000 </semantics></math> molecular density increases, and the recombination process between <span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <msubsup>\u0000 <mi>H</mi>\u0000 <mn>3</mn>\u0000 <mo>+</mo>\u0000 </msubsup>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 <annotation>$$ {mathrm{H}}_3^{+} $$</annotation>\u0000 </semantics></math> and electrons is observed to reduce the particle flux to the target plate. With an increase in H density, the electron density increases due to the decrease in ion flow velocity due to the change exchange process, and the ele","PeriodicalId":10700,"journal":{"name":"Contributions to Plasma Physics","volume":"64 7-8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ctpp.202300150","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141381018","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}