Ionizing Potential Waves and High-Voltage Breakdown Streamers
- 1 January 1972
- journal article
- conference paper
- Published by AIP Publishing in Physics of Fluids
- Vol. 15 (1) , 86-90
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1693759
Abstract
The structure of ionizing potential waves driven by a strong electric field in a dense gas is discussed. Negative breakdown waves are found to propagate with a velocity proportional to the electric field normal to the wavefront. This causes a curved ionizing potential wavefront to focus down into a filamentary structure, and may provide the reason why breakdown in dense gases propagates in the form of a narrow leader streamer instead of a broad wavefront.Keywords
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