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Formation of Wide Streamers during a Subnanosecond Discharge in Atmospheric-Pressure Air

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Results are presented from experimental and computational studies of a subnanosecond breakdown of atmospheric-pressure air in a nonuniform electric field. It is shown that the ionization waves (streamers) formed in the prebreakdown stage have a nearly spherical or conical shape. The diameter of the streamer in its widest part is found to increase with increasing voltage and discharge gap length. For a rise time of the voltage pulse of ≈0.5 ns and its amplitude of ≈250 kV, streamers about 8 cm in diameter were observed in a 7-cm-long gap.

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  1. Institute of High Current Electronics, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Tomsk, 634055, Russia

    V. F. Tarasenko, D. V. Beloplotov & I. D. Kostyrya

  2. Joint Institute for High Temperatures, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, 125412, Russia

    G. V. Naidis & N. Yu. Babaeva

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Original Russian Text © V.F. Tarasenko, G.V. Naidis, D.V. Beloplotov, I.D. Kostyrya, N.Yu. Babaeva, 2018, published in Fizika Plazmy, 2018, Vol. 44, No. 8, pp. 652–660.

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Tarasenko, V.F., Naidis, G.V., Beloplotov, D.V. et al. Formation of Wide Streamers during a Subnanosecond Discharge in Atmospheric-Pressure Air. Plasma Phys. Rep. 44, 746–753 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063780X18080081

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