Re: Streamer simulation

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Original poster: "Jim Lux" <jimlux-at-earthlink-dot-net> 

It most certainly would... I suspect that one can jigger the state
transition properties around to get any arbitrary preferred branching angle.

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Subject: Re: Streamer simulation


 > 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
 >
 >