Improvements of an FDTD-based surge simulation code and its application to the lightning overvoltage calculation of a transmission tower

Electric Power Systems Research

Volumn 77, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1495-1500

  Noda, Taku ^a   Tatematsu, Akiyoshi ^a   Yokoyama, Shigeru ^a  

^a CENTRAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF ELECTRIC POWER INDUSTRY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Electromagnetic transient analysis; FDTD methods; Graphical User Interfaces; Lightning; Poles and towers; Simulation software; Surges

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC TRANSIENT ANALYSIS; POLES AND TOWERS; SIMULATION SOFTWARE;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; ELECTRIC CONDUCTORS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION;

EID: 34447297861     PISSN: 03787796     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsr.2006.08.021     Document Type: Article

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