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

Abstract

"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 physics, electrical engineering and industry, geophysics and space physics, computational science and nonlinear dynamics together around the common topic of generation, structure and products of streamer-like electric breakdown. The present cluster issue collects relevant articles within this area; most of them were presented during the workshop. We here briefly discuss the research questions and very shortly review the papers in the cluster issue, and we also refer to a few recent papers in other journals.

Editorial introduction for the cluster issue on "Streamers, sprites and lightning" in J. Phys. D, 13 pages, 74 references

References in corpus (20)

• Positive and negative streamers in ambient air: measuring diameter, velocity and dissipated energy
• Positive and negative streamers in ambient air: modeling evolution and velocities
• Photoionization in negative streamers: fast computations and two propagation modes
• The multiscale nature of streamers
• Positive streamers in air and nitrogen of varying density: experiments on similarity laws
• An adaptive grid refinement strategy for the simulation of negative streamers
• Multiple X-ray bursts from long discharges in air
• Deviations from the local field approximation in negative streamer heads
• Diffusion correction to the avalanche--to--streamer transition
• Interaction of streamers in air and other oxygen-nitrogen mixtures
• Stereo-photography of point-plane streamers in air
• Saffman-Taylor streamers: mutual finger interaction in an electric breakdown
• Numerical convergence of the branching time of negative streamers
• Streamer branching rationalized by conformal mapping techniques
• Spatial coupling of particle and fluid models for streamers: where nonlocality matters
• Regularization of moving boundaries in a Laplacian field by a mixed Dirichlet-Neumann boundary condition: exact results
• Avalanche to streamer transition in particle simulations
• Positive streamers in ambient air and a N2:O2-mixture (99.8 : 0.2)
• Construction and test of a moving boundary model for negative streamer discharges
• Convective stabilization of a Laplacian moving boundary problem with kinetic undercooling

Cited by in corpus (14)

• The physics of streamer discharge phenomena
• Probing photo-ionization: Experiments on positive streamers in pure gasses and mixtures
• Probing photo-ionization: simulations of positive streamers in varying N2:O2 mixtures
• Positive streamers in air and nitrogen of varying density: experiments on similarity laws
• Density models for streamer discharges: beyond cylindrical symmetry and homogeneous media
• High order fluid model for streamer discharges: I. Derivation of model and transport data
• Condensed Matter Systems Exposed to Radiation: Multiscale Theory, Simulations, and Experiment
• High order fluid model for streamer discharges. II. Numerical solution and investigation of planar fronts
• Streamer propagation in the atmosphere of Titan and other N2:CH4 mixtures compared to N2:O2 mixtures
• Atmospheric electrification in dusty, reactive gases in the solar system and beyond
• On the physics and technology of gaseous particle detectors
• Investigating CO${}_2$ streamer inception in repetitive pulsed discharges
• Accurate and efficient calculation of photoionization in streamer discharges using fast multipole method
• Moving boundary approximation for curved streamer ionization fronts: Numerical tests