Artificial and natural fireballs as combustion objects

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 38, Issue 12 PART 1, 2010, Pages 3289-3290

  Bychkov, Vladimir V ^a,b  

^a MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Ball lightning (BL); chemical reactions; fireball; metallic powder core; oxide cover; plasma combustion

Indexed keywords

BALL LIGHTNING; FIREBALL; METALLIC POWDER; THEORETICAL MODELS; TRANSFER OF CHARGES;

COMBUSTION; METALLIC COMPOUNDS; POWDER METALS;

LIGHTNING;

EID: 78650275447     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPS.2010.2051167     Document Type: Article

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