Using Multifractal Analysis to Advance Fractal Modeling of Sprites

Sprites are large streamer trees that propagate down from the ionospheric boundary. Thought to be scaled versions of streamer coronae, they are thus of wider interest to the study of lightning and spark discharges. Fractal modeling is a technique to simulate the large scale behavior of dielectric breakdown, which has seen some success at simulating sprites. This poster presents work to improve upon existing fractal models and an analysis of the results using multifractal analysis.