Modeling of Artificial Ball Lightning With a Help of Capillary Discharge

Experiments on creation of artificial ball lightning (BL) by capillary gas discharges at interaction of plasmas with a wire made of a Sn alloy have been undertaken. Two types of long-lived luminescent objects have been realized with sizes 1-5 mm and a lifetime of about 1 s. The first type is a solid...

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Published in:IEEE transactions on plasma science 2015-12, Vol.43 (12), p.4043-4047
Main Authors: Bychkov, Vladimir L., Chernikov, Vladimir A., Osokin, Andrey S., Stepanov, Aleksander I., Stepanov, Ilya G.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Artificial ball lightning (ABL)
capillary gas discharge
Discharges (electric)
Explosions
Lightning
Luminescence
Modeling
natural ball lightning (BL)
Plasma physics
Plasmas
Tin
vapor
Wire
Wires
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Summary:Experiments on creation of artificial ball lightning (BL) by capillary gas discharges at interaction of plasmas with a wire made of a Sn alloy have been undertaken. Two types of long-lived luminescent objects have been realized with sizes 1-5 mm and a lifetime of about 1 s. The first type is a solid metallic sphere and the second one is a sphere with a solid cover filled by a vapor. The obtained results confirm a model where a natural BL consists of a core filled by a vapor of fused material and a solid cover.
ISSN:0093-3813
1939-9375
DOI:10.1109/TPS.2015.2478441