The Lightning Flash

Herausgeber: Cooray, Vernon

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This updated and expanded new edition of Cooray's classic text provides the reader with a thorough background in almost every aspect of lightning and its impact on electrical and electronic equipment.

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Produktdetails

• Energy Engineering
• Verlag: Institution of Engineering and Technology
• 2 ed
• Seitenzahl: 924
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 257mm x 183mm x 53mm
• Gewicht: 1844g
• ISBN-13: 9781849196918
• ISBN-10: 1849196915
• Artikelnr.: 40495451

Inhaltsangabe

* Chapter 1: Charge structure and geographical variation of
thunderclouds
* Chapter 2: Thunderstorm electrification mechanisms
* Chapter 3: Mechanism of electrical discharges
* Chapter 4: Mechanism of the lightning flash
* Chapter 5: Features of lightning flashes obtained from high-speed
video recordings
* Chapter 6: Rocket-and-wire triggered lightning experiments
* Chapter 7: Tower initiated lightning discharges
* Chapter 8: Computation of electromagnetic fields from lightning
discharge
* Chapter 9: Return stroke models with special attention to engineering
applications
* Chapter 10: Return stroke speed models
* Chapter 11: On the various approximations to calculate lightning
return stroke generated electric and magnetic fields over finitely
conducting ground
* Chapter 12: Interaction of electromagnetic fields generated by
lightning with overhead electrical networks
* Chapter 13: Principles of protection of structures against lightning
* Chapter 14: Attachment of lightning flashes to grounded structures
* Chapter 15: Lightning and EMC
* Chapter 16: Electrical aspects of lightning strikes to humans
* Chapter 17: Upper atmospheric electrical discharges
* Chapter 18: Energetic radiation from thunderstorms and lightning
* Chapter 19: Global lightning nitrogen oxides production
* Chapter 20: Lightning and global temperature change