New insights into lightning return-stroke models with specified longitudinal current distribution

IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibility

Volumn 51, Issue 3 PART 1, 2009, Pages 471-478

  Maslowski, Grzegorz ^a,b   Rakov, Vladimir A ^a  

^a University of Florida   (United States)

^b RZESZOW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Continuity equation; Corona sheath; Distributed sources; Lightning; Lumped source; Return stroke model

Indexed keywords

CONTINUITY EQUATION; CORONA SHEATH; DISTRIBUTED SOURCES; LUMPED SOURCE; RETURN-STROKE MODEL;

DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER NETWORKS; ELECTRIC CURRENT DISTRIBUTION MEASUREMENT;

LIGHTNING;

EID: 69649096341     PISSN: 00189375     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TEMC.2009.2017200     Document Type: Article

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