Electron density fluctuations accelerate the branching of positive streamer discharges in air

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

Volumn 84, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Luque, A ^a   Ebert, U ^b,c  

^a INSTITUTO DE ASTROFÍSICA DE ANDALUCÍA CSIC   (Spain)

^b CWI   (Netherlands)

^c EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON DENSITY FLUCTUATIONS; ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS; EXPERIMENTAL MEASUREMENTS; INITIAL STATE; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; QUANTITATIVE ESTIMATES; STANDARD TEMPERATURE AND PRESSURES; STREAMER DISCHARGES; THREE DIMENSIONAL SIMULATIONS;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

ELECTRONS;

EID: 80054975406     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.84.046411     Document Type: Article

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