Published May 21, 2008 | Version v1
Journal article

Fluctuation charge effects in ionization fronts

  • 1. Area de Electromagnetismo, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Camino del Molino s/n, 28943 Fuenlabrada, Madrid (Spain)
  • 2. Departamento de Fisica Aplicada II, Universidad de Sevilla, Av. Reina Mercedes 2, 41012 Sevilla (Spain)

Description

In this paper, we study the effects of charge fluctuations on the propagation of both negative and positive ionization fronts in streamer discharges. We show that fronts accelerate when random charge creation events are present. This effect might play a similar role to photoionization in order to make the front move faster

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0022-3727/41/10/105204

Additional details

Identifiers

DOI
10.1088/0022-3727/41/10/105204;
PII
S0022-3727(08)69972-6;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Journal of Physics. D, Applied Physics
Journal Volume
41
Journal Issue
10
Journal Page Range
[9 p.]
ISSN
0022-3727
CODEN
JPAPBE

INIS

Country of Publication
United Kingdom
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
40037176
Subject category
S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
Descriptors DEI
FLUCTUATIONS; PHOTOIONIZATION; RANDOMNESS
Descriptors DEC
IONIZATION; VARIATIONS