Analysis of lightning-radiated electromagnetic fields in the vicinity of lossy ground

IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibility

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 131-145

  Shoory, Abdolhamid ^a   Moini, Rouzbeh ^a   Sadeghi, S H Hesam ^a   Rakov, Vladimir A ^b  

^a AMIRKABIR UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Electromagnetic fields; Lightning return stroke; Lossy ground; Method of moments (MoM)

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; ELECTRIC CURRENT DISTRIBUTION; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; LIGHTNING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; METHOD OF MOMENTS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS;

ELECTRIC FIELD INTEGRAL EQUATION; LIGHTNING RETURN STROKE; LOSSY GROUND; MONOPOLE ANTENNAS; RADIATED ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS;

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS;

EID: 15044341874     PISSN: 00189375     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TEMC.2004.842104     Document Type: Article

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