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A Procedure to Infer Lightning Return-Stroke Current Waveform From Far-Field Waveform for the Case of Lossy Ground
Document Type
Periodical
Source
IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibility IEEE Trans. Electromagn. Compat. Electromagnetic Compatibility, IEEE Transactions on. 66(2):525-531 Apr, 2024
Subject
Fields, Waves and Electromagnetics
Engineered Materials, Dielectrics and Plasmas
Computational modeling
Lightning
Finite difference methods
Time-domain analysis
Conductivity
Power transmission lines
Mathematical models
Finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method
lightning
propagation effects
return-stroke current waveform
return-stroke field waveform
return-stroke model
Language
ISSN
0018-9375
1558-187X
Abstract
We proposed expressions for reconstructing the waveform of channel-base current from the corresponding far electric field waveform (radiation field component only) on perfectly conducting ground for the modified transmission line models with linear and exponential current decay with height. Waveforms of vertical electric field on lossy ground at far distances (50–200 km) were computed using the finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method for solving discretized Maxwell's equations in the 2-D cylindrical coordinate system. The FDTD-computed waveforms of vertical electric field on lossy ground were compensated for propagation effects and used in the proposed field-to-current conversion expressions for inferring the channel-base current waveform. The reconstructed currents are in excellent agreement with the current used in computing the fields on lossy ground.