Moving boundary approximation for curved streamer ionization fronts: Solvability analysis

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 78, Issue 5, 2008, Pages

  Brau, Fabian ^a   Davidovitch, Benny ^b   Ebert, Ute ^a,c  

^a CWI   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^c EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; IONIZATION; LAPLACE EQUATION; LAPLACE TRANSFORMS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; SURFACE TENSION;

ADJOINT; CHARGE NEUTRALITIES; CURVATURE CORRECTIONS; DENSITY MODELS; IONIZATION FRONTS; KINETIC UNDERCOOLING; LAPLACIAN GROWTHS; MOVING BOUNDARY APPROXIMATIONS; NEGATIVE STREAMERS; UNCONVENTIONAL FEATURES;

POLYNOMIAL APPROXIMATION;

EID: 57349116238     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.78.056212     Document Type: Article

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