THEORETICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION OF PULSED DISCHARGES IN GASES.

A numerical study was made of the properties of pulsed self-sustained and nonself-sustained discharges in gases, and of the ways in which their development is affected by nonmonotonic dependences of the electron drift velocity on the ratio of the field to the density and on other parameters. The procedure used makes it possible to perform calculations for discharges having large discharge gaps and, at the same time, to study the detailed distributions of the electric field and of the ion and electron densities in the discharge gap. The calculations agree well with experimental results for a large-volume nonself-sustained discharge.