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Electron avalanche

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Bipolar Lightning Flashes Observed at the Säntis Tower: Do We Need to Modify the Traditional Classification?

Farhad Rachidi-Haeri, Marcos Rubinstein, Mario Paolone, Davide Pavanello, Mohammad Azadifar

We present and discuss current waveforms associated with 13 bipolar lightning flashes recorded at the Santis Tower during the period from June 2010 to January 2015. During this period, a total of 427 flashes were recorded, of which 13 (3%) were classified ...

American Geophysical Union2016

OES Characterization of Steamers in a Nanosecond Pulsed SBDB Using N2 and Ar Transitions

Christoph Hollenstein, Peter Ott, Pénélope Leyland, Philip Peschke, Sami Goekce

The characterization of non-thermal homogeneous plasmas is possible using optical emission spectroscopy (OES), notably by estimating the reduced electric field. This method was applied to characterize streamers generated by a nanosecond pulsed surface diel ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2016

Kinetic modelling of runaway electron avalanches in tokamak plasmas

Joan Decker

Runaway electrons can be generated in tokamak plasmas if the accelerating force from the toroidal electric field exceeds the collisional drag force owing to Coulomb collisions with the background plasma. In ITER, disruptions are expected to generate runawa ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2015

Modeling of Long-Term Multipactor Evolution in Microwave Components Including Dielectric Layers

Apostolos Sounas

Multipactor is a resonant vacuum discharge occurring in microwave components of satellite systems as well as in particle accelerators. Due to its undesirable effects, multipactor analysis constitutes a mandatory step in the design of modern satellite compo ...

EPFL2015

Granulation of snow: From tumbler experiments to discrete element simulations

Michael Lehning, Johan Alexandre Philippe Gaume, Betty Sovilla, Walter Steinkogler

It is well known that snow avalanches exhibit granulation phenomena, i.e., the formation of large and apparently stable snow granules during the flow. The size distribution of the granules has an influence on flow behavior which, in turn, affects runout di ...

2015

Quantifying snowfall and avalanche release synchronization: a case study

Paolo Perona, Benoît Crouzy, Betty Sovilla

We quantify the synchronization between snowfall and natural avalanches in relation to terrain properties at the detachment zone. We analyze field statistics of 549 avalanche events in terms of slope, aspect, timing, coordinate, and release area, identifie ...

Wiley-Blackwell2015

Influence of snow cover properties on avalanche dynamics

Michael Lehning, Betty Sovilla, Walter Steinkogler

The destructive power of an avalanche depends, among other things, on the overall mass and the snow conditions in the avalanche path. So far, the knowledge on the effect of snow conditions on avalanche behavior is limited and largely qualitative. We invest ...

Elsevier Science Bv2014

Multipactor Analysis in Parallel-Plate Waveguides Loaded by a Single Dielectric Slab

Michael Mattes, Francisco Edén Sorolla Rosario, Apostolos Sounas

This paper studies the evolution of the multipactor discharge inside a parallel-plate waveguide partially loaded by a dielectric slab. The effect of static charges on the dielectric surface as well as of induced charges on the metallic plates are included. ...

2014

Analyzing Corona breakdown with a finite element-based electromagnetic solver

Juan Ramon Mosig, Michael Mattes, Francisco Edén Sorolla Rosario, Ioannis Koufogiannis

This paper demonstrates how an already developed finite element code for solving electromagnetic problems can be manipulated and simply extended so as to investigate complicated corona breakdowns. A safe criterion based on the eigenvalue analysis is used i ...

2013

Modeling microwave/electron-cloud interaction

Michael Mattes, Francisco Edén Sorolla Rosario

Starting from the separate codes BI-RME and ECLOUD or PyECLOUD, we are developing a novel joint simulation tool, which models the combined effect of a charged particle beam and of microwaves on an electron cloud. Possible applications include the degradati ...

2013