Re: Streamer simulation

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Original poster: "Dr. Resonance" <resonance-at-jvlnet-dot-com> 


Would that in any way explain why the average channel deviation (in real
lightning) is 16 degrees?  I assume this might also apply to Tesla coils.

Dr. Resonance

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 >  > I don't know that a fractal model is optimum (streamer development
isn't
 >  > scale independent, like fractals are), but some sort of cellular
automata
 >  > model might be...
 >
 > Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics 34 (2001) 936-946.
 > "Simulation of breakdown in air using cellular automata with streamer
 > to leader transition".
 > Has nice plots of simulated streamers. The references mention several
 > papers about the fractal nature of streamers.
 >
 >  > Essentially, you've got chunks of air that are in one of three
states...
 >  > nothing, streamer growing, and streamer fully formed, and then they get
 >  > connected in an essentially random (tree structured) way.  The physics
 >  > going on at the tip of the streamer is pretty much the same, whether
it's
 >  > at the end of a 10cm streamer or a 1m streamer.  Likewise, what's going
on
 >  > inside the developed streamer is essentially the same regardless of
where
 >  > along the streamer it is.
 >
 > The idea in the paper appears to be similar.
 >
 > Antonio Carlos M. de Queiroz