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physics.plasm-ph2008★ 100 cited

Streamers, sprites, leaders, lightning: from micro- to macroscales

Ute Ebert, Davis D. Sentman

"Streamers, sprites, leaders, lightning: from micro- to macroscales" was the theme of a workshop in October 2007 in Leiden, The Netherlands; it brought researchers from plasma phys…

physics.plasm-ph2008★ 52 cited

Reconnection and merging of positive streamers in air

S. Nijdam, C. G. C. Geurts, E. M. van Veldhuizen +1

Pictures show that streamer or sprite discharge channels emerging from the same electrode sometimes seem to reconnect or merge though their heads carry electric charge of the same…

physics.plasm-ph2008★ 7 cited

Moving boundary approximation for curved streamer ionization fronts: Solvability analysis

Fabian Brau, Benny Davidovitch, Ute Ebert

The minimal density model for negative streamer ionization fronts is investigated. An earlier moving boundary approximation for this model consisted of a "kinetic undercooling" typ…

physics.plasm-ph2008★ 9 cited

Impulse Formulations of Hall Magnetohydrodynamic Equations

Bhimsen K. Shivamoggi

Impulse formulations of Hall magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations are developed. The Lagrange invariance of a generalized ion magnetic helicity is established for Hall MHD. The phys…

physics.plasm-ph2008★ 281 cited

Positive and negative streamers in ambient air: measuring diameter, velocity and dissipated energy

T. M. P. Briels, J. Kos, G. J. J. Winands +2

Positive and negative streamers are studied in ambient air at 1 bar; they emerge from a needle electrode placed 40 mm above a planar electrode. The amplitudes of the applied voltag…

physics.plasm-ph2008★ 125 cited

Positive streamers in air and nitrogen of varying density: experiments on similarity laws

T. M. P. Briels, E. M. van Veldhuizen, Ute Ebert

Positive streamers in ambient air at pressures from 0.013 to 1 bar are investigated experimentally. The voltage applied to the anode needle ranges from 5 to 45 kV, the discharge ga…

physics.plasm-ph2008★ 276 cited

Positive and negative streamers in ambient air: modeling evolution and velocities

Alejandro Luque, Valeria Ratushnaya, Ute Ebert

We simulate short positive and negative streamers in air at standard temperature and pressure. They evolve in homogeneous electric fields or emerge from needle electrodes with volt…

physics.plasm-ph2008★ 112 cited

Multiple X-ray bursts from long discharges in air

C. V. Nguyen, A. P. J. van Deursen, U. Ebert

A lightning surge generator generates a high voltage surge with 1.2 microsec. rise time. The generator fed a spark gap of two pointed electrodes at 0.7 to 1.2 m distances. Gap brea…

physics.plasm-ph2008★ 82 cited

Stereo-photography of point-plane streamers in air

S. Nijdam, J. S. Moerman, T. M. P. Briels +2

Standard photographs of streamer discharges show a two-dimensional projection. We here present stereo-photographic images that resolve their three-dimensional structure. We describ…

physics.plasm-ph2008★ 21 cited

Positive streamers in ambient air and a N2:O2-mixture (99.8 : 0.2)

T. M. P. Briels, E. M. van Veldhuizen, Ute Ebert

Photographs show distinct differences between positive streamers in air or in a nitrogen-oxygen mixture (0.2% O2). The streamers in the mixture branch more frequently, but the bran…