A comparison of 3D particle, fluid and hybrid simulations for negative streamers

Plasma Sources Science and Technology

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Li, Chao ^a,b   Teunissen, Jannis ^a   Nool, Margreet ^a   Hundsdorfer, Willem ^a,c   Ebert, Ute ^a,b  

^a CWI   (Netherlands)

^b EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL APPROXIMATION; CLASSICAL FLUIDS; DENSITY FLUCTUATION; DISCHARGE STREAMERS; ENERGETIC ELECTRON; FLUID MODELS; FREE ELECTRON; FRONT VELOCITY; HIGH FIELD; HYBRID MODEL; HYBRID SIMULATION; NEGATIVE STREAMERS; PARTICLE MODEL; SINGLE ELECTRON; STOCHASTIC FLUCTUATION;

CARRIER CONCENTRATION; ELECTRON DENSITY MEASUREMENT; ELECTRONS; GAMMA RAYS; IONIZATION; STOCHASTIC MODELS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

EID: 84867278826     PISSN: 09630252     EISSN: 13616595     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0963-0252/21/5/055019     Document Type: Article

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