Branching of positive discharge streamers in air at varying pressures

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 33, Issue 2 I, 2005, Pages 264-265

  Briels, Tanja M P ^a   van Veldhuizen, Eddie M ^a   Ebert, Ute ^a,b  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b CWI   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Corona; Gas discharges; Optical imaging; Sparkgap

Indexed keywords

AIR; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; ELECTRIC CORONA; ELECTRIC SPARKS; HIGH SPEED PHOTOGRAPHY; PRESSURE EFFECTS;

GAS DISCHARGES; POSITIVE DISCHARGE STREAMERS; SPARKGAP;

ELECTRIC DISCHARGES;

EID: 18844366915     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPS.2005.845939     Document Type: Article

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