Corona power loss, electric field, and current density profiles in bundled horizontal and vertical bipolar conductors

IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 1182-1189

  Al Hamouz, Zakariya M ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (Saudi Arabia)

^b KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Bipolar conductors; Corona power loss; Current density; Electric field; Finite element method

Indexed keywords

BIPOLAR CONDUCTORS;

CURRENT DENSITY; ELECTRIC CORONA; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRIC LINES; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; HVDC POWER TRANSMISSION;

BUNDLED CONDUCTORS;

EID: 0036754371     PISSN: 00939994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIA.2002.802931     Document Type: Article

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