PHYSICS

Kinetics of Knudsen arc with the cathode spot

N. N. Koval'^ab, Yu. E. Kreindel^ab, E. A. Litvinov^ab, G. A. Mesyats^ab, V. S. Tolkachev^ab, P. I. Shchanin<sup>ab

a</sup> Institute of Electrophysics, Ural Branch of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Sverdlovsk
^b Institute of High Current Electronics, Siberian Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Tomsk

UDC: 533.525

Received: 09.03.1987