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Breakdown of model aircraft radome dielectric shell in artificial charged aerosol clouds

A. G. Temnikov, L. L. Chernensky, A. V. Orlov, S. S. Antonenko

Moscow Power Engineering Institute (Technical University)

Abstract: The breakdown of a model aircraft radome dielectric shell in artificial charged aqueous aerosol clouds has been experimentally studied. It is established that, in most cases, electric breakdown of a model shell takes place without explicit discharge development between a charged aqueous aerosol cloud and a model antenna arranged under the radome shell. The probabilities of the dielectric shell breakdown have been determined for various radome models. A possible mechanism of the shell breakdown in hollow dielectric radomes interacting with charged aqueous aerosol clouds and electric discharges in these clouds is proposed that takes into account the accumulation of charges of opposite signs on the internal and external surface of the radome.

Received: 15.03.2011

 English version: Technical Physics Letters, 2011, 37:10, 907–910

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