Representation of a lightning return-stroke channel as a nonlinearly loaded thin-wire antenna

IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibility

Volumn 51, Issue 3 PART 1, 2009, Pages 488-498

  Seyed Moosavi, Seyed Hassan ^a   Moini, Rouzbeh ^a   Sadeghi, S H Hesam ^a  

^a AMIRKABIR UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Antenna theory (AT); Electric field integral equation (EFIE); Fixed inductive loading; Lightning return stroke modeling; Nonlinearly resistive loading; Strong shock

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA THEORY (AT); ELECTRIC FIELD INTEGRAL EQUATION (EFIE); FIXED INDUCTIVE LOADING; NONLINEARLY RESISTIVE LOADING; STRONG SHOCK;

ANTENNAS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; PHYSICAL OPTICS; WAVE PROPAGATION;

LIGHTNING;

EID: 69649104988     PISSN: 00189375     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TEMC.2009.2025655     Document Type: Article

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