THe mechanism of the amplification of moving striations in a d-c discharge

To determine the mechanism of the amplification of moving striations one starts out from the processes which [3] showed to be decisive for the production of stratification of the plasma of a positive column. An analysis of the influence of other processes shows that the main processes leading to the decay of space charges and thus to a smoothing out of the inhomogeneities and thereby to the attenuation of the periodic structure, cannot by overcome by ionization phenomena caused by changes in the concentration of electrons but only partially compensated.It was found that the process which can lead to the predomination of the processes of amplification over the attenuation is the process of the spatial shift of the temperature deflections of the electrons with respect to the additional electric field, which is expressed in a simplified way by Eq. (12).By solving the extremely simplified basic equations it is proved that under favourable conditions this displacement can lead to both a time and a spatial amplification of the striations. Such a possibility is also verified quantitatively by substituting numerical values into the formulae obtained.

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