Lightning striking distance of complex structures

IET Generation, Transmission and Distribution

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 131-138

  Becerra, M ^a   Cooray, V ^a   Roman, F ^b  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b Ingeniería Biomédica ECCI y GINIC HUS   (Colombia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRPORTS; LIGHTNING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PREDICTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS;

COLLECTION VOLUME METHOD (CVM); INCEPTION ZONES; LATERAL POSITION;

LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS;

EID: 37249000481     PISSN: 17518687     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/iet-gtd:20070099     Document Type: Article

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