On the computation of underground electromagnetic fields generated by lightning: A comparison between different approaches

2007 IEEE Lausanne POWERTECH, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 772-777

  Mimouni, Abdenbi ^b,c,d   Delfino, Federico ^a,e   Procopio, Renato ^a,e   Rachidi, Farhad ^a,c  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY OF TIARET   (Algeria)

^c EPFL   (Switzerland)

^d University of Genoa ^*

^e UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Modeling; Underground lightning electromagnetic fields

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; MODELS; NUMERICAL METHODS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

EXPONENTIAL DECAYS; GROUND CONDUCTIVITY; GROUND SURFACES; LIGHTNING ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; MODIFIED TRANSMISSION LINE MODELS; NUMERICAL SOLUTION; RETURN STROKE; UNDERGROUND FIELDS;

LIGHTNING;

EID: 50849083143     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PCT.2007.4538413     Document Type: Conference Paper

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