On representation of lightning return stroke as a lossy monopole antenna with inductive loading

IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibility

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 118-127

  Bonyadi Ram, Siamak ^a   Moini, Rouzbeh ^a   Sadeghi, S H H ^a   Rakov, Vladimir A ^b  

^a AMIRKABIR UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^b University of Florida   (United States)

Author keywords

Antenna theory (AT); Current distribution; Electric and magnetic fields; Inductive loading; Lightning return stroke modeling

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRIC INDUCTORS; ELECTRIC LOADS; METHOD OF MOMENTS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PERMITTIVITY; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; WAVE PROPAGATION;

ANTENNA THEORY; INDUCTIVE LOADING; LOSSY MONOPOLE ANTENNA; TRAVELING CURRENT WAVE;

LIGHTNING ARRESTERS;

EID: 40949148656     PISSN: 00189375     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TEMC.2007.913221     Document Type: Article

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