From: mystuffs@orwell.net (Metlicka Marc)
Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 20:40:18 -0400
Subject: Re: [TSSP] streamer formation modeling
terry, one thing, in the frame to frame pics of the streamers i have, the path does not disintegrate. it actually seems to shrink at almost the same rate that it grows, and as it shrinks another streamer grows at the same rate. it seems to me that an equilibrium is maintained at all times? one of the strangest things was that there was many, many small streamers breaking out along the horizontal plane at the edge of the toroid "WHEN THE SAFETY GAP IS FIRING". this i thought was incredible? the breakrate was at 120bps another effect that is shown is that in some frames you can almost guess the path that the forking in the next frame will take by the density of the ion cloud or energy charge by it's brightness, this seems to suggest that there is a condensing in lines at work? marc
Maintainer Paul Nicholson, paul@abelian.demon.co.uk.