Spatially hybrid computations for streamer discharges with generic features of pulled fronts: I. Planar fronts
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Spatially hybrid computations for streamer discharges with generic features of pulled fronts: I. Planar fronts
Streamers are the first stage of sparks and lightning; they grow due to a strongly enhanced electric field at their tips; this field is created by a thin curved space charge layer. These multiple scales are already challenging when the electrons are approximated by densities. However, electron density fluctuations in the leading edge of the front and non-thermal stretched tails of the electron ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Computational Physics
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0021-9991
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2009.09.027