Secondary emission effects on streamer branching in transient non-uniform short-gap discharges

Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics

Volumn 36, Issue 20, 2003, Pages 2498-2509

  Hallac, A ^a   Georghiou, G E ^b   Metaxas, A C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^c ST JOHN S COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CALCULATIONS; ENERGY GAP; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; INTERPOLATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHOTOIONIZATION;

PHOTOIONIZATION RATES; SHORT GAP DISCHARGES; STREAMER BRANCHING;

SECONDARY EMISSION;

EID: 0242273442     PISSN: 00223727     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0022-3727/36/20/011     Document Type: Article

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