Lightning electromagnetics. Volume 2, Electrical processes and effects /

• Other Authors: Cooray, Vernon (Editor), Rachidi, Farhad, 1962- (Editor), Rubinstein, Marcos, 1960- (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London, United Kingdom : Institution of Engineering and Technology, 2022.
• Edition: 2nd edition.
• Series: IET energy engineering series ; 127.
• Subjects: Lightning.; Electromagnetism.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9781785615429; 1785615424; 9781785615412; 9781785615436; 9781785615405; 9781785615399
• Physical Description: 1 online resource : illustrations.

"Lightning is important for all scientists and engineers involved with electric installations. It is gaining further relevance since climate warming is causing an increase in lightning strikes, and since the rising numbers of renewable power generators, the electricity grid, and charging infras...

Table of Contents:

• Basic discharge processes in the atmosphere / Vernon Cooray and Liliana Arevalo
• Modelling of charging processes in clouds / Edward R. Mansell and Donald R. MacGorman
• Numerical simulations of non-thermal electrical discharges in air / Y.V. Serdyuk
• Attachment of lightning flashes to grounded structures / Vernon Cooray
• Modeling lightning strikes to tall towers / Farhad Rachidi and Marcos Rubinstein
• Lightning electromagnetic field calculations in the presence of a conducting ground : the numerical treatment of Sommerfield's integrals / Federico Delfino, Renato Procopio, Mansueto Rossi, Daniele Mestriner and Massimo Brignone
• Lightning electromagnetic field propagation : a survey on the available approximate expressions / Daniele Mestriner, Renato Procopio, Massimo Brignome and federico Delfino
• Interaction of lightning-generated electromagnetic fields with overhead and underground cables / Carlo Alberto Nucci, Farhad Rachidi and Marcos Rubinstein
• Application of scale models to the study of lightning transients in power transmission and distribution systems / Alexandre Piantini and Jorge M. Janiszewski
• Lightning interaction with the ionosphere / Dongshuai Li, Alejandro Luque, Marcos Rubinstien and Farhad Rachidi
• Lightning effects in the mesosphere / Vadim V. Surkov and Masashi Hayakawa
• The effects of lightning on the ionosphere/magnetosphere : whistlers and ionospheric Alfvén resonator / M. Hayakawa and Y. Hobora
• On the NOx generation in corona, streamer and low-pressure electrical discharges / Vernon Cooray, Marley Becerra and Mahbubur Rahman
• On the NOx production by laboratory electrical discharges and lightning / Vernon Cooray, Mahbubur Rahman and Vladimir Rakov
• Lightning and climate change / Earle R. Williams, Joan Montanya, Joydeb Saha and Anirban Guha.