An FDTD model for low and high altitude lightning-generated EM fields

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1513-1522

  Hu, Wenyi ^a,b   Cummer, Steven A ^a  

^a Duke University   (United States)

^b SCHLUMBERGER DOLL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Electromagnetic propagation in plasma media; Finite difference time domain (FDTD) methods; Ionosphere; Lightning

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; IONOSPHERE; LIGHTNING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

FINITE-DIFFERENCE TIME-DOMAIN METHODS; PLASMA MEDIA;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 33646498135     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2006.874336     Document Type: Article

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