Lightning protection of wind turbines - A comparison of real lightning strike data and finite element lightning attachment analysis

1st International Conference on Sustainable Power Generation and Supply, SUPERGEN '09

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Peesapati, Vidyadhar ^a   Cotton, Ian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Electric field; Finite element; Lightning; Modeling; Wind turbine

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELDS; LIGHTNING; LIGHTNING PROTECTION; MODELS; OFFSHORE WIND FARMS; WIND TURBINES;

ELECTROSTATIC MODELING; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS SOFTWARE; FULL-SCALE MODELING; HIGH ELECTRIC FIELDS; IEC STANDARDS; LIGHTNING ATTACHMENT; LIGHTNING PROTECTION SYSTEMS; LIGHTNING STRIKES;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 77951456094     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SUPERGEN.2009.5348122     Document Type: Conference Paper

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