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Thermalization of a spark discharge
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In this article, a thermalization process that depends on both localized and channelized Ohmic heating of a plasma in a spark discharge is proposed, and a satisfactory quantitative description of a spark current pulse observed in a recent experiment by Barreto, Reynolds, and Jurenka is given in terms of the proposed process.Abstract:
A thermalization process that depends on both localized and channelized Ohmic heating of a plasma in a spark discharge is proposed. A satisfactory quantitative description of a spark current pulse observed in a recent experiment by Barreto, Reynolds, and Jurenka is given in terms of the proposed process.read more
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Generation of large-volume, atmospheric-pressure, nonequilibrium plasmas
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A model of the streamer‐induced spark formation based on neutral dynamics
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The formation of small sparks
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Selected aspects of turbulence and combustion in 20-litre explosion vessels : development of experimental apparatus and experimental investigation
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Neutral heating in glow to spark transition in air and nitrogen
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Electrical breakdown of gases
John M. Meek,J. D. Craggs +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a collection of individual works on electrical discharges is presented, including fundamental processes in the electrical breakdown of gases, vacuum breakdown, spark breakdown in uniform fields, corona discharge, and burst in non-uniform fields.
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The electrical conductivity of an ionized gas
TL;DR: In this paper, it was shown that the integral must be cut off at the Debye shielding distance, not at the mean interionic distance, and the integro-differential equation obtained with the use of this diffusion term permits a more precise solution of the Boltzmann equation than is feasible with the Chapman-Cowling theory.