Acoustic resonances in HID lamps: model and measurement

John Hirsch (1) , Bernd Baumann (2) , Marcus Wolff (2) , Sounil Bhosle (3, 4) , Ricardo Valdivia Barrientos (5)

1 HCTLab - Human Computer Technology Laboratory
2 Hamburg University of Applied Sciences [Hamburg]
3 UT2J - Université Toulouse - Jean Jaurès
4 IMRB - Institut Mondor de Recherche Biomédicale
5 National Institute of Nuclear Research

A finite element model including plasma simulation is used to calculate the amplitude of acoustic resonances in HID lamps in a 2D axisymmetric geometry. Simulation results are presented for different operation parameters and are compared with experimental data.

Mots clés: HID lamp; acoustic resonance; modeling

John Hirsch, Bernd Baumann, Marcus Wolff, Sounil Bhosle, Ricardo Valdivia Barrientos. Acoustic resonances in HID lamps: model and measurement. Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 2010, 43 (23), pp.234002. ⟨10.1088/0022-3727/43/23/234002⟩. ⟨hal-00569623⟩