Streamer V/I and energy balance

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Original poster: "Denicolai, Marco" <Marco.Denicolai@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Hi all,

I did try to model with MicroSim the streamer 000 (see my previous 
postings and Terry's 
<http://hot-streamer.com/temp/Marco12.pdf>http://hot-streamer.com/temp/Marco12.pdf). 
I got nowhere. In practice a negative resistance component is needed, 
with some extra features for the streamer breakdown (high current) 
threshold simulation. Need to spend more time on that.

But then I used Matlab to compute the streamer energy (the bang was a 
12.8 J). I got what you can see at:

<http://www.iki.fi/dncmrc/scratch/str_energy.gif>http://www.iki.fi/dncmrc/scratch/str_energy.gif

Vertical scale is 135.4 kV/V, 10 A/V or Joules.

Energy (in red) peaks to 6.6J but then goes down to 5.7J!
How's that? V and I are really of opposite polarity during that 
interval of time but how?

Regards




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