Evaluation of the Characteristics of Lightning Return Stroke Electromagnetic Fields Generated by Cloud-to-Ground Lightning. / Avaliação do Comportamento dos Campos Eletromagnéticos Gerados por Descargas Atmosféricas Nuvem-Terra

AUTOR(ES)

Fabio Romero

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2007

RESUMO

The occurrence of lightning discharges causes a significant amount of unscheduled supply interruptions in overhead lines of electricity systems, contributing to decrease quality indicators of these systems, even in the case of regions with moderated ground flash density. Focusing on the distribution systems, great part of the problems are related to the induced voltages due to lightning discharges in the vicinity of overhead lines, which results from the electric and magnetic fields associated with the current propagation along the return stroke channel. The knowledge of the characteristics of lightning electromagnetic fields is, therefore, crutial for determining induced voltages on overhead lines. Although the importance of the assumption has propitiated in the last years the development of a great number of research concerning the lightning electromagnetic fields and induced voltages on overhead lines, in most of the studies the hypothesis of a perfect conducting ground is assumed. While such assumption can be considered valid for magnetic induction field and for the vertical component of the electric field, it doesn’t apply to the horizontal electric field, especially in the case of ground with high resistivity. The aim of this work is to present and to discuss the characteristics of the electric field (vertical and horizontal components) and magnetic induction generated by the cloud-to-ground lightning discharge, taking into account the lightning parameters (amplitude, waveform and propagation speed of the return stroke current) and the different return stroke models. Besides the case of perfect conducting ground, the influences of the ground permittivity and finite conductivity in the calculation of the electromagnetic fields are so considered.

ASSUNTO(S)

electromagnetic transients transitórios eletromagnéticos modelos para representação da descarga atmosférica lightning descargas atmosféricas ground conductivity condutividade finita do solo lightning electromagnetic fields return stroke models campos eletromagnéticos

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