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Four million euro for EU SAINT network on thunderstorm research

In May 2016 the EU 'SAINT' Innovative Training Network in the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Programme was awarded a 4 Million euro grant. SAINT stands for ...

Cum laude for 3D modelling of pulsed discharges in air

PhD student Jannis Teunissen from Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) has made major progress in modelling the early stages of electric discharges as they ...

Jannis Teunissen wins GEC15 Student Award of Excellence

Jannis Teunissen from Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, won the Student Award of Excellence of the GEC for his talk 'Advances ...

Start of lightning explained: hail and cosmic particles

For the first time researchers demonstrate how lightning is started: by a combination of hail and high energy particles from space, originating from exploding ...

Exploding stars help to understand thunderclouds on Earth

How is lightning initiated in thunderclouds? This is difficult to answer – how do you measure electric fields inside large, dangerously charged clouds? It was ...

Voor het eerst antimaterie uit bliksem gemodelleerd

In hevige onweersbuien komen zulke hoge elektrische velden voor, dat er hoogenergetische straling – zoals röntgen- en gammastraling – kan worden opgewekt. Er ...

Creation of antimatter from lightning simulated for the first time

In severe thunderstorms electric fields can become so high, that high energy radiation – such as X-rays and gamma rays - can be generated. Even antimatter can ...

CWI verbetert ontladingsmodellen voor technische toepassingen

Met gepulste elektrische ontladingen  worden  belangrijke technische toepassingen ontwikkeld, zoals het zuiveren van vervuilde lucht in snelwegtunnels, ...

CWI improves discharge models for technical applications

Pulsed electric discharges have important applications, such as purifying polluted air in highway tunnels, disinfection and wound healing. As physical and ...

Streamers in lightning better understood by new mathematical model

Streamers - electrically conducting channels in gases like air - occur in the early stages of lightning, and in industrial applications.