Formation of ball and cylindrical streamers during corona discharge in air at atmospheric pressure
V.F. Tarasenko, V.S. Kuznetsov, E.Kh. Baksht, V.A. Panarin, V.S. Skakun, E.A. Sosnin
High Current Electronics Institute of the Siberian Branch of the RAS, Tomsk, Russia
Keywords: ball/spherical streamer, cylindrical streamer, lightning, basic/generic negative leader, space/volume leader
Abstract
The conditions for the formation of ball and cylindrical streamers in a corona discharge were studied. It is shown that formation of cylindrical streamers from a positive tip or from a plasma at a positive tip can explain the stepwise progression of the main negative leader in lightning and during the breakdown of long gaps.
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