Role of the absorption length of photoionizing radiation in streamer dynamics in weak fields: A characteristic scale of ionization domain

Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2000, Pages

  Kulikovsky, A A ^a,b  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IONIZATION OF GASES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PHOTOIONIZATION;

STREAMERS;

ELECTRIC BREAKDOWN OF GASES;

EID: 0033639635     PISSN: 00223727     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0022-3727/33/1/102     Document Type: Article

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