Filamentary ion flow : theory and experiments

Content: Filamentary Ion Flow: Theory and Experiments
 Contents
 Preface
 Acknowledgements
 Introduction
 Principal Symbols
 1 Fundamentals of Electrical Discharges
 1.1 Introduction
 1.2 Ionization Processes in Gases
 1.2.1 Ionization by Electron Impact
 1.2.2 Townsend First Ionization Coefficient
 1.2.3 Electron Avalanches
 1.2.4 Photoionization
 1.2.5 Other Ionization Processes
 1.3 Deionization Processes in Gases
 1.3.1 Deionization by Recombination
 1.3.2 Deionization by Attachment
 1.4 Ionization and Attachment Coefficients
 1.5 Electrical Breakdown of Gases. 1.5.1 Breakdown in Steady Uniform Field: Townsend\'s Breakdown Mechanism1.5.2 Paschen\'s Law
 1.6 Streamer Mechanism
 1.7 Breakdown in Nonuniform DC Field
 1.8 Other Streamer Criteria
 1.9 Corona Discharge in Air
 1.9.1 DC Corona Modes
 1.9.2 Negative Corona Modes
 1.9.3 Positive Corona Modes
 1.10 AC Corona
 1.11 Kaptzov\'s Hypothesis
 2 Ion Flow Models. A Review
 2.1 Introduction
 2.2 The Unipolar Space-Charge Flow Problem
 2.2.1 General Formulation
 2.2.2 Iterative Procedure
 2.2.3 The Unipolar Charge-Drift Formula
 2.3 Deutsch\'s Hypotheses (DH)
 2.4 Some Unipolar Ion-Flow Field Problems. 2.4.1 Analytical Methods2.4.2 Numerical Methods
 2.5 Special Models
 2.5.1 Drift of Charged Spherical Clouds
 2.5.2 Graphical Approach
 2.6 More on DH and Concluding Remarks
 Appendix 2.A: Warburg\'s Law (WL)
 Appendix 2.B: Bipolar Ionized Field
 3 Introductory Survey on Fluid Dynamics
 3.1 Introduction
 3.2 Continuum Motion of a Fluid
 3.3 Fluid Particle
 3.4 Field Quantities
 3.5 Conservation Laws in Differential Form
 3.5.1 Generalization
 3.5.2 Mass Conservation
 3.5.3 Momentum Conservation
 3.5.4 Total Kinetic Energy Conservation
 3.6 Stokesian and Newtonian Fluids. 3.7 The Navier-Stokes Equation3.8 Deterministic Formulation for et
 3.9 Incompressible (Isochoric) Flow
 3.9.1 Mass Conservation
 3.9.2 Subsonic Flow
 3.9.3 Momentum Conservation
 3.9.4 Total Kinetic Energy Conservation
 3.10 Incompressible and Irrotational Flows
 3.11 Describing the Velocity Field
 3.11.1 Decomposition
 3.11.2 The v-Field of Incompressible and Irrotational Flows
 3.11.3 Some Practical Remarks and Anticipations
 3.12 Variational Interpretation in Short
 3.12.1 Bernoulli\'s Equation for Incompressible and Irrotational Flows
 3.12.2 Lagrange\'s Function
 Appendix 3.A. 4 Electrohydrodynamics of Unipolar Ion Flows4.1 Introduction
 4.2 Reduced Mass-Charge
 4.3 Unified Governing Laws
 4.3.1 Mass-Charge Conservation Law
 4.3.2 Fluid Reaction to Excitation Electromagnetic Fields
 4.3.3 Invalid Application of Gauss\'s Law: A Pertaining Example
 4.3.4 Laplacian Field and Boundary Conditions
 4.3.5 Vanishing Body Force of Electrical Nature
 4.3.6 Unified Momentum and Energy Conservation Law
 4.3.7 Mobility in the Context of a Coupled Model
 4.3.8 Some Remarks on the Deutsch Hypothesis (DH)
 4.4 Discontinuous Ion-Flow Parameters
 4.4.1 Multichanneled Structure.