Accession Number:

AD0776916

Title:

On the Theory of Streamer Breakdown,

Descriptive Note:

Corporate Author:

FOREIGN TECHNOLOGY DIV WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB OHIO

Personal Author(s):

• Zakharov,A. I.
• Iersyantsev,I. G.
• Pismennyi,V. D.
• Rodin,A. V.
• Smarosmin,A. N.

Report Date:

1974-03-11

Pagination or Media Count:

22.0

Abstract:

In the present study the authors developed a qualitative theory to calculate the velocity of an anode-directed streamer in a case where the latter is independent of length. The stability of a streamer front in relation to infinitely small excitations is studied. It is shown that when a front of finite thickness is considered the streamer is stable. In an approximation for an infinitely thin leading front, the streamer is unstable.

Descriptors:

• *Gas ionization
• *Electrical corona
• Partial differential equations
• Translations
• USSR

Subject Categories:

• Plasma Physics and Magnetohydrodynamics

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE