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      <journal-id journal-id-type="elibrary">https://www.elibrary.ru/title_about_new.asp?i</journal-id>
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        <journal-title>Global Energy</journal-title>
        <trans-title-group xml:lang="ru">
          <trans-title>Глобальная энергия</trans-title>
        </trans-title-group>
      </journal-title-group>
      <issn pub-type="epub">2782-6724</issn>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">8</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">doi.org/10.18721/JEST.30107</article-id>
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        <article-title>NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF HIGH-CURRENT ATMOSPHERIC DISCHARGES WITH CONSIDERATION OF PLASMA CHANNELS THERMODYNAMICS. PART 2. ANALYSIS OF SIMULATION RESULTS</article-title>
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          <trans-title>ЧИСЛЕННОЕ МОДЕЛИРОВАНИЕ СИЛЬНОТОЧНЫХ АТМОСФЕРНЫХ РАЗРЯДОВ С УЧЕТОМ ТЕРМОДИНАМИКИ ПЛАЗМЕННЫХ КАНАЛОВ. Ч. 2. АНАЛИЗ РЕЗУЛЬТАТОВ МОДЕЛИРОВАНИЯ</trans-title>
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        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Sysoev</surname>
            <given-names>Artem</given-names>
          </name>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Iudin</surname>
            <given-names>Dmitry</given-names>
          </name>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Rakov</surname>
            <given-names>Vladimir</given-names>
          </name>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Emelyanov</surname>
            <given-names>Aleksey</given-names>
          </name>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Klimashov</surname>
            <given-names>Vitaly</given-names>
          </name>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">0000-0002-1173-8727</contrib-id>
          <contrib-id contrib-id-type="scopus">6601971248</contrib-id>
          <contrib-id contrib-id-type="researcherid">B-7916-2013</contrib-id>
          <name>
            <surname>Korovkin</surname>
            <given-names>Nikolay</given-names>
          </name>
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          <email>nikolay.korovkin@gmail.com</email>
        </contrib>
      </contrib-group>
      <aff id="aff1">Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, Russia</aff>
      <pub-date publication-format="electronic" date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2024-03-29">
        <day>29</day>
        <month>03</month>
        <year>2024</year>
      </pub-date>
      <volume>30</volume>
      <issue>1</issue>
      <fpage>117</fpage>
      <lpage>135</lpage>
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        <p>The article presents the second part of the study devoted to the modeling of high-current lightning discharges. The first part [part 1] describes a model approach taking into account discharge channels thermodynamics that allows us to relate conductivity and the current-carrying radius of leader segments to their temperature. The study presents and analyses simulation results covering all stages of the high-current lightning development. It is shown that the model is capable of reproducing currents characteristic of high-current lightning discharges with amplitudes up to tens of thousands of amperes. Simulation results let us formulate a new scenario of development of compact intracloud discharges and initial breakdown pulses based on collective dynamics of a system consisting of a large number of interconnected discharge channels developing in a parallel. In particular, it is demonstrated that current pulses characteristic of compact intracloud discharges and initial breakdown pulses can form as a result of evolution of a network of low-temperature (streamer) plasma channels. Inside this network, a hot well-conducting leader frame forms drawing the system currents onto itself. At the same time, at all the stages of discharge development the relative fraction of leader sections does not exceed a few percent of the total number of channels in the current system.</p>
      </abstract>
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        <kwd>compact intracloud discharge</kwd>
        <kwd>initial breakdown pulses</kwd>
        <kwd>streamers</kwd>
        <kwd>leaders</kwd>
        <kwd>hierarchical networks of plasma channels</kwd>
        <kwd>discharge channels thermodynamics</kwd>
        <kwd>lightning initiation</kwd>
        <kwd>negative leader steps</kwd>
        <kwd>numerical simulation</kwd>
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