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Type: Artigo de Evento
Title: Lightning strikes to towers: an attempt to identify the effect of the channel resistance on wave interactions at the return-stroke front
Authors: Alberto Resende de Conti
Abstract: This paper presents an attempt to identify the influence of the channel resistance on return-stroke current propagation resulting from a lightning strike to a tall object such as a metallic tower. For simplicity, the tall object and the lightning channel are represented as uniform transmission lines. The former is modeled as a lossless transmission line, while a nonlinear resistance is considered in the latter. Two cases are considered for different values of channel conductivity. In the first case a series voltage source is used to excite the interface between the tower and the channel assuming that the characteristic impedances of both are matched. The second case assumes unmatched characteristic impedances. The role of the per-unit-length resistance on the currents calculated in both cases is investigated. This is made to study its effect on wave interactions that take place at the return-stroke front.
Subject: Engenharia elétrica
language: eng
metadata.dc.publisher.country: Brasil
Publisher: Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Publisher Initials: UFMG
metadata.dc.publisher.department: ENG - DEPARTAMENTO DE ENGENHARIA ELÉTRICA
Rights: Acesso Restrito
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1843/37488
Issue Date: Sep-2016
metadata.dc.url.externa: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7791374
metadata.dc.relation.ispartof: International Conference on Lightning Protection (ICLP)
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