Propagation of positive streamers in a weak and uniform background electric field

Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 614-623

  Serdyuk, Yu V ^a   Larsson, A ^b   Gubanski, S M ^a   Akyuz, M ^c  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b LUND INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR; CARRIER CONCENTRATION; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRODES; ELECTROSTATICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PLASMAS; STABILITY; VELOCITY;

PLASMA CONDUCTIVITY; POSITIVE STREAMERS; STREAMER DYNAMICS;

ELECTRIC BREAKDOWN;

EID: 0035248822     PISSN: 00223727     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0022-3727/34/4/323     Document Type: Article

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