The book sets out a general approach to describing the propagation of plasma of electrical breakdown of gases at all its stages, based on an analogy with the processes of propagation of combustion and detonation fronts. An analysis of experimental and theoretical studies of electrical breakdown is given, physical and mathematical models are proposed, and the basic mechanisms of breakdown are investigated.

For scientists in the field of electric discharge physics, electrophysics and high voltage engineering, graduate and senior students.