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Dynamics of power absorption in a microwave streamer

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Simple analytical relations are presented that allow the energy absorbed in a plasma channel to be evaluated. The dynamics of the energy characteristics of a microwave streamer in air has been studied. It is shown that, upon termination of the stage of streamer elongation in air, a quasi-stationary state is established that is characterized by a weak change in the absorbed power W st, which is close to the maximum value dependent on the form factor of a plasma cloud (plasmoid). The fraction of the wave beam energy transferred to the plasmoid does not exceed several percents.

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Original Russian Text © V.A. Bityurin, P.V. Vedenin, 2009, published in Pis’ma v Zhurnal Tekhnicheskoĭ Fiziki, 2009, Vol. 35, No. 15, pp. 1–7.

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Bityurin, V.A., Vedenin, P.V. Dynamics of power absorption in a microwave streamer. Tech. Phys. Lett. 35, 683–686 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1134/S106378500908001X

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