A simplified physical model to determine the lightning upward connecting leader inception

IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 897-908

  Beccerra, Marley ^a   Cooray, Vernon ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Lightning; Modeling; Numerical analysis

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC POWER DISTRIBUTION; ELECTRIC SPACE CHARGE; GEOMETRY; ITERATIVE METHODS; MODELS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; STATIC ELECTRICITY;

ITERATIVE GEOMETRICAL ANALYSIS; LEADER INCEPTION; LEADER STABILIZATION FIELDS; STRIKING DISTANCES;

LIGHTNING;

EID: 33645741736     PISSN: 08858977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPWRD.2005.859290     Document Type: Article

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