Cooray V. Lightning Electromagnetics Vol 2...2ed 2023

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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 infrastructure are susceptible to lightning damage. This is the second edition to this comprehensive work.
1 Basic discharge processes in the atmosphere
2 Modelling of charging processes in clouds
3 Numerical simulations of non-thermal electrical discharges in air
4 Attachment of lightning flashes to grounded structures
5 Modeling lightning strikes to tall towers
6 Lightning electromagnetic field calculations in the presence of a conducting ground: the numerical treatment of Sommerfeld’s integrals
7 Lightning electromagnetic field propagation: a survey on the available approximate expressions
8 Interaction of lightning-generated electromagnetic fields with overhead and underground cables
9 Application of scale models to the study of lightning transients in power transmission and distribution systems
10 Lightning interaction with the ionosphere
11 Lightning effects in the mesosphere
12 The effects of lightning on the ionosphere/magnetosphere: whistlers and ionospheric Alfve´n resonator
13 On the NOx generation in corona, streamer and low-pressure electrical discharges
14 On the NOx production by laboratory electrical discharges and lightning
15 Lightning and climate change