The thermal characteristics of ACCR lines as a function of wind speed – an analytical approach

. The paper has investigated the effect of wind speed on selected thermal characteristics of the contemporary ACCR line. As wind speed functions, heating curves, stationary temperature profiles, steady-state current ratings and thermal time constants, have been determined. The composite core (Al–Al 2 O 3 ) and the Al–Zr alloy braid were modeled as porous solids. As a result, the physical model is composed of a solid cylinder and a hollow cylinder with different material parameters of the above-mentioned elements. The mathematical model was formulated as the boundary-initial problem of the parabolic heat equation. The problem was solved by the state-superposition of and variable-separation method. On this basis, a computer program was developed in the Mathematica 10.4 environment and the velocity characteristics sought for were plotted. The results obtained analytically were positively verified by the finite-element method in the NISA v.16 environment. The physical interpretation of the determined characteristics has been given.