In this review we describe a transient type of gas discharge which is commonly called a
streamer discharge, as well as a few related phenomena in pulsed discharges. Streamers …

Guided ionization waves, or plasma streamers, are increasingly important for many
applications in spanning materials processing and biomedicine. The highly reproducible …

We study the development of a negative discharge of about 1 MV driven by a Marx
generator in an air gap of 1–1.5 m, at standard temperature and pressure. We show the …

Understanding the mechanism of positive leader discharge is important in lightning
protection engineering and the external insulation design in high voltage power …

The elongation and branching of long positive spark discharges in the laboratory and in
lightning have been attributed to the formation of thermalized channels inside a diffuse, glow …

Gas flows can be induced by gas discharges like DC coronas because neutral molecules
gain momentum by ion-neutral collisions. This can be used for active cooling and has …

The streamer zone of positive leader during the breakthrough phase of long sparks was
experimentally investigated with two methods. One of the methods is the analysis of …

The results of the physical modelling of the formation processes of upward discharges from
grounded objects in the artificial thunderstorm cell's electric field are presented. We …

In this paper, we propose an efficient and accurate message-passing interface (MPI)-based
parallel simulator for streamer discharges in three dimensions using the fluid model. First …

One of the most important feature of streamers is that they frequently branch during the
development process. In this paper, the branching characteristics of positive streamers are …