The effect of corona space charge produced at ground level on lightning attachment to tall structures

Author

Bazelyan, E.M. ; Raizer, Yu.P. ; Aleksandrov, N.L.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electrophys. Process Simulation, Krzhizhanovsky Power Eng. Inst., Moscow, Russia

fYear

2012

fDate

2-7 Sept. 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

A numerical simulation is used to investigate the effect of the ion layer produced by corona at ground level on lightning attachment to tall slender structures. The properties of a non-stationary glow corona maintained near the tips of a multi-point ground system in a time-varying thundercloud electric field are studied numerically and analytically. The initiation of an upward leader is considered from the top of a grounded structure that is exposed to the electric field produced by a storm cloud, approaching downward leader and corona space charge created on the ground surface and near the structure top.

Keywords

corona; electric fields; lightning protection; numerical analysis; space charge; corona space charge effect; ground level; ground surface; grounded structure; lightning attachment; multipoint ground system; nonstationary glow corona property; numerical simulation; storm cloud; tall slender structures; time-varying thundercloud electric field; Lead; Materials; corona space charge; lightning attachment; multi-point coronating system; tall grounded structure;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lightning Protection (ICLP), 2012 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Vienna

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-1898-3

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4673-1896-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICLP.2012.6344212

Filename

6344212