摘要

Audible noise accompanies corona discharge, which is one of the most important electromagnetic environment issues of high voltage transmission lines. Most of the studies on the audible noise generated by corona discharge focused on statistical analysis of the experimental results and a series of empirical formulas were derived to predict the audible noise. However, few of them interpreted the generating mechanism of the audible noise. Sound wave in the air is actually the fluctuation of the air, which lead to the hypothesis that the sound wave is generated by the interaction of the charged particles and the air molecules in the discharge progress. To validate this hypothesis, experiments were carried out in this paper to study the relationship between the audible noise and the corona current, including the correlation both in time domain and in frequency domain. Based on the experimental results, the fluid equations of the particles in the air were introduced to study the interactions among the electrons, ions, and neutral molecules in the discharge, and a numerical model for the amplitude of corona acoustic emission was developed and validated. Published by AIP Publishing.