Effects of nonlocality on the dynamics of streamers in positive corona discharges
- 1 June 1997
- journal article
- Published by Pleiades Publishing Ltd in Technical Physics Letters
- Vol. 23 (6) , 493-494
- https://doi.org/10.1134/1.1261717
Abstract
Computer simulation is used to study the effect on the parameters of the streamer plasma due to the nonlocality of the electron energy distribution near the head of a streamer in air. Taking into account the nonlocality increases the electron field strength in the head and the electron density in the channel. The streamer radius decreases, while the streamer velocity and current as well as the efficiency of generating chemically active particles remain essentially the same as in the local approach.Keywords
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