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Although the behavior of a conducting particle under uniform electric is highly important in
the field of electrostatics (e.g., particles in gas insulation systems), configurations in which the
particle makes a tilt angle with the plane is hardly investigated (1). For studying the movement
of conducting particles, the configuration of a conducting particle in contact with an electrode
was examined as an important ground. Spherical and cylindrical profiles were often considered
for the particles. For a spherical particle, the charge and theCoulomb force were analyzed by
Felic and by Hara and Akazaki (2). Experimental results on lifting field of spherical particles
agreed well with the analytical ones under dc voltage. In addition to Coulomb force, spherical
particles maymove along an electrode surface toward the higher-field region by the electrical
gradient force and then elevate from the electrode (3). The electrical gradient force can be
utilized to activate and deactivate particle motion. For a wire particle, the models of an infinite
cylinder and a hemispheroid in contact with an electrode were applied to estimate the charge and
force in the lying and standing positions, respectively (4).
In practice, free particles in gas insulated systems have a variety of geometrical profiles not
limited to the spherical or wire profile. However, the behavior of a non-spherical conducting
particle under electric field in the systems is still unclear. The authors have reported an analysis
of the electric field and force for axisymmetric configurations of a spheroid (5). However, the
behavior becomes more complicated, when a particle makes a tilt angle with an electrode
possibly by electrostatic torque, mechanical operation or disturbance of the system (6).
Although numerical methods may be used to calculate the electric field, the force, and torque on
the particles, it is difficult to realize high accuracy for the 3D calculation of curved particle
profiles (7).
This paper presents a 3D analysis of the electric field and electromechanical behavior of a
conducting prolate spheroid on a grounded plane under an external electric field (8). The
spheroidal profile is adopted here for varying the particle shapes from sphere-like to wire-like
ones (9). The method of multipole images is used for the accurate field analysis. The objective
of the current work is to clarify the fundamental electromechanical behavior in general 3D
conditions including the effects of electrostatic torque on the spheroid.
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