Modeling of Streamer Ignition and Propagation in the System of Two Approaching Hydrometeors

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Výsledek na webu

<a href="https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2019JD031337" target="_blank" >https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2019JD031337</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2019JD031337" target="_blank" >10.1029/2019JD031337</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Modeling of Streamer Ignition and Propagation in the System of Two Approaching Hydrometeors

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

First-principles plasma fluid modeling is used for investigation of electrical gas discharges ignited by a configuration of two approaching conducting hydrometeors with typical radii on the order of several millimeters under thunderstorm conditions (i.e., at an elevated location in the Earth's atmosphere corresponding to half of air density at ground level and at applied electric field approximately half of that required for avalanche multiplication of electrons in air). It is demonstrated that ultraviolet photons produced by the electrical discharges developing due to the electric field enhancement in the gap between two hydrometeors and resultant photoionization in the discharge volume lead to much less stringent conditions for conversion of these discharges to a filamentary streamer form than in the case not accounting for the effects of photoionization. It is also demonstrated that this photoionization feedback is critical for understanding and correct description of the subsequent streamer discharges developing on the outer periphery of two hydrometeors whose potential is equalized due to the electrical connection established by the initial streamer discharge between them. The initial streamer ignition between the hydrometeors can be preceded by the corona development, which can have detrimental effect on the ignition. However, it is demonstrated that for hydrometeors approaching with a speed of similar to 10 m/s the effect of this onset corona is small.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Modeling of Streamer Ignition and Propagation in the System of Two Approaching Hydrometeors

Popis výsledku anglicky

First-principles plasma fluid modeling is used for investigation of electrical gas discharges ignited by a configuration of two approaching conducting hydrometeors with typical radii on the order of several millimeters under thunderstorm conditions (i.e., at an elevated location in the Earth's atmosphere corresponding to half of air density at ground level and at applied electric field approximately half of that required for avalanche multiplication of electrons in air). It is demonstrated that ultraviolet photons produced by the electrical discharges developing due to the electric field enhancement in the gap between two hydrometeors and resultant photoionization in the discharge volume lead to much less stringent conditions for conversion of these discharges to a filamentary streamer form than in the case not accounting for the effects of photoionization. It is also demonstrated that this photoionization feedback is critical for understanding and correct description of the subsequent streamer discharges developing on the outer periphery of two hydrometeors whose potential is equalized due to the electrical connection established by the initial streamer discharge between them. The initial streamer ignition between the hydrometeors can be preceded by the corona development, which can have detrimental effect on the ignition. However, it is demonstrated that for hydrometeors approaching with a speed of similar to 10 m/s the effect of this onset corona is small.

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

10509 - Meteorology and atmospheric sciences

Projekt

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Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2020

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-ATMOSPHERES

ISSN

2169-897X

e-ISSN

2169-8996

Svazek periodika

125

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

6

Stát vydavatele periodika

US - Spojené státy americké

Počet stran výsledku

12

Strana od-do

„e2019JD031337“

Kód UT WoS článku

000529111600021

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

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