Metal particle contamination in a gas-insulated switchgear (GIS) or a gas-insulated
transmission line (GIL) is an important factor leading to the decline of insulation …

Contact charging of a conducting droplet in a dielectric medium is introduced as a novel and
useful digital microfluidic technology as well as an interesting scientific phenomenon. The …

In this study, mechanical analysis of the air-gap breakdown with free spherical metal particle
is conducted in a DC uniform field to address the problem of metal-particle pollution in DC …

Particulate flows with charged particles under electric flow field exist in many practical
applications, including metal particles in Gas Insulated Switchgear (GIS) or manipulation of …

We compute the electric force between a dielectric sphere and a dielectric plane in the
presence of an external electric field. Laplace's equation is solved in bispherical coordinates …

During real‐time operation of photovoltaic optoelectronic tweezers, a novel intriguing
phenomenon has been recently observed, namely, silver nanoparticles previously …

A printed circuit board (PCB) is an essential element for practical circuit applications and its
failure can inflict large financial costs and even safety concerns, especially if the PCB failure …

A charge-free particle in a uniform electric field experiences no net force in an unbounded
domain. A boundary, however, breaks the symmetry and the particle can be attracted or …

In insulating liquid, a conductive particle becomes charged through the interaction with a
conductor exposed to an applied field. Then, it migrates in the action of both electric field …

During the operation of power transformers, the insulating oil is actually in a moving state
due to the effects of various cooling systems. Therefore, the investigation on insulation …