Streamer discharges can move perpendicularly to the electric field

Streamer discharges are a primary mode of electric breakdown in thunderstorms and high voltage technology; they are generally believed to grow along electric field lines. However, we here give experimental and numerical evidence that streamers can propagate nearly perpendicularly to the background e...

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Main Authors: S Nijdam, E Takahashi, J Teunissen, U Ebert
Formato: Artigo
Idioma:English
Publicado: IOP Publishing 2014-01-01
Series:New Journal of Physics
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Acceso en liña:https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/16/10/103038