Corona initiated from grounded objects under thunderstorm conditions and its influence on lightning attachment

Plasma Sources Science and Technology

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  Bazelyan, E M ^a   Raizer, Yu P ^b   Aleksandrov, N L ^c  

^a Krzhizhanovsky Power Engineering Institute   (Russian Federation)

^b INSTITUTE FOR PROBLEMS IN MECHANICS   (Russian Federation)

^c MOSCOW INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS AND TECHNOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRIC SPACE CHARGE; GROUNDING ELECTRODES; NUMERICAL METHODS; THUNDERSTORMS;

GROUNDED STRUCTURES; LIGHTNING ATTACHMENT; LIGHTNING DISCHARGES;

LIGHTNING;

EID: 43149106928     PISSN: 09630252     EISSN: 13616595     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0963-0252/17/2/024015     Document Type: Article

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