Transient analysis of grounding systems for wind turbines

Renewable Energy

Volumn 43, Issue , 2012, Pages 284-291

  Cavka, Damir ^a   Poljak, Dragan ^a   Doric, Vicko ^a   Goic, Ranko ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SPLIT   (Croatia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SPLIT   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Grounding system; Lightning; Transient analysis; Wind turbine; Wire antenna theory

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCY DOMAINS; GROUNDING SYSTEMS; GROUNDING WIRE; HORIZONTAL ELECTRODES; INDIRECT BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD; INVERSE FOURIER TRANSFORMS; ISOPARAMETRIC ELEMENT; MATHEMATICAL FORMULATION; POCKLINGTON INTEGRO-DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; RING ELECTRODES; THIN-WIRE ANTENNAS; TRANSIENT BEHAVIOR; WIRE ANTENNA THEORY;

ANTENNAS; BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; ELECTRIC GROUNDING; INTEGRODIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; LIGHTNING; WIND TURBINES; WIRE;

TRANSIENT ANALYSIS;

ANTENNA; ELECTRODE; FOURIER TRANSFORM; LIGHTNING; NUMERICAL MODEL; TRANSIENT FLOW; WIND TURBINE;

EID: 84856523050     PISSN: 09601481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2011.11.042     Document Type: Article

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