On the use of transmission line theory to represent a nonuniform vertically-extended object struck by lightning

IEEE International Symposium on Electromagnetic Compatibility

Volumn 2, Issue , 2003, Pages 501-504

  Bermudez, J L ^a   Rachidi, F ^a   Chisholm, W A ^b   Rubinstein, M ^c   Janischewskyj, W ^d   Hussein, A M ^d   Shostak, V ^e   Chang, J S ^f  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b KINECTRICS INC   (Canada)

^c University of Applied Sciences   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^e NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF UKRAINE   (Ukraine)

^f MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Elevated strike object (ESO); Instrumented tower; Lightning; Reduced scale models (RSM); Transmission line (TL) model

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; COAXIAL CABLES; ELECTRIC CURRENT MEASUREMENT; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; LIGHTNING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OSCILLOGRAPHS; TOWERS; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

ELEVATED STRIKE OBJECT; INSTRUMENTED TOWER; REDUCED SCALE MODELS;

TRANSMISSION LINE THEORY;

EID: 0141940106     PISSN: 01901494     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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