Fundamental processes in long air gap discharges

I Gallimberti, G Bacchiega… - Comptes …, 2002 - comptes-rendus.academie-sciences …
La formation d'un éclair débute par le développement, dans l'air vierge, de décharges
électriques de type «corona» et «leader», semblables à celles observées en laboratoire …

A simplified physical model to determine the lightning upward connecting leader inception

M Becerra, V Cooray - IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery, 2006 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, a generalized leader inception model is proposed. It is based on an iterative
geometrical analysis of the background potential distribution of an earthed structure to …

Dynamics of streamer‐to‐leader transition at reduced air densities and its implications for propagation of lightning leaders and gigantic jets

CL Da Silva, VP Pasko - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
In this paper we present modeling studies of air heating by electrical discharges in a wide
range of pressures. The developed model is capable of quantifying the different …

A self-consistent upward leader propagation model

M Becerra, V Cooray - Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 2006 - iopscience.iop.org
The knowledge of the initiation and propagation of an upward moving connecting leader in
the presence of a downward moving lightning stepped leader is a must in the determination …

Ionization processes in spark discharge plasmas

NL Aleksandrov, EM Bazelyan - Plasma Sources Science and …, 1999 - iopscience.iop.org
The dominant mechanisms of electron generation and loss during different phases of spark
discharge are considered. The focus is on spark formation in long non-uniform-field air gaps …

The streamer-to-spark transition in a transient spark: a dc-driven nanosecond-pulsed discharge in atmospheric air

M Janda, Z Machala, A Niklová… - … Sources Science and …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a study of the streamer-to-spark transition in a self-pulsing dc-driven discharge
called a transient spark (TS). The TS is a streamer-to-spark transition discharge with short …

Growing discharge trees with self-consistent charge transport: the collective dynamics of streamers

A Luque, U Ebert - New Journal of Physics, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
We introduce the generic structure of a growth model for branched discharge trees that
consistently combines a finite channel conductivity with the physical law of charge …

[HTML][HTML] 雷击建筑物的先导连接过程模拟

任晓毓, 张义军, 吕伟涛, 陶善昌 - 应用气象学报, 2010 - html.rhhz.net
为了研究闪电先导与地物的相互作用, 该文建立了一个闪电先导的二维模式以模拟雷击建筑物的
先导连接过程. 模拟得到梯级长度在13.8~ 51.5 m 的范围内, 下行先导的感应电荷为0.03× 10-4 …

Gas heating dynamics during leader inception in long air gaps at atmospheric pressure

L Liu, M Becerra - Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
The inception of leader discharges in long air gaps at atmospheric pressure is simulated
with a thermo-hydrodynamic model and a detailed kinetic scheme for N 2/O 2/H 2 O …

An experimental study of positive leaders initiating rocket-triggered lightning

JC Willett, DA Davis, P Laroche - Atmospheric research, 1999 - Elsevier
Simultaneous, co-located measurements of ambient, electrostatic-field profiles and rocket-
triggered lightning phenomenology beneath Florida thunderstorms are reported. Ambient …