2015/02/26 by S. E. Siahlo, Siahlo, S. E., V. V. Tikhomirov +2
Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Accelerator Physics (physics.acc-ph) #Electrostatic Discharge in Electronics #FOS: Physical sciences #Integrated Circuits and Semiconductor Failure Analysis #Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph) #Pulsed Power Technology Applications #physics.acc-ph #physics.plasm-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1502.07499
6 pages, 3 figures
arxiv created 2015/02/26 · openalex publication_date 2015/02/26 · arxiv updated 2015/02/27 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
The numerical simulation of an air spark gap has been carried within two theoretical models. The kinetic one [1] allowed us to calculate time dependencies for the residual resistance (0.2 - 0.4 Ohm for our selection of a circuit parameters), the spark gap channel width, the electron number density, the mobility, the conductivity, the ionization degree, the magnetic field in the discharge channel, the channel inductance and the electron drift velocity. Simulating a real circuit and taking into account a spark gap residual resistance demonstrates good agreement of both models with the experimental data, while that without taking into account this resistance overestimates the maximal current in the circuit by approximately 5%.