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Lightning Electromagnetics Return Stroke Modelling and Electromagnetic Radiation, Volume 1.

Understanding lightning is of importance due to the increase in extreme weather events. The 2nd edition of this classic work has been thoroughly updated and revised, with new content on EM radiation at various wavelengths. Volume 1 treats electrodynamics, whilst volume 2 addresses effects and modell...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Cooray, Vernon
Other Authors: Rachidi, Farhad, Rubinstein, Marcos
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: : Institution of Engineering & Technology, 2023.
Edition:2nd ed.
Series:Energy Engineering Series.
Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • About the editors
  • Acknowledgements
  • 1 Basic electromagnetic theory
  • a summary
  • 1.1 Introduction
  • 1.2 The nomenclature
  • 1.3 Coordinate systems
  • 1.4 Important vector relationships
  • 1.4.1 The scalar product of vectors
  • 1.4.2 The vector product of two vectors
  • 1.4.3 Vector field
  • 1.4.4 The Nabla operator and its operations
  • 1.4.5 Important vector identities
  • 1.4.6 Relationship between the Curl of a vector field and the line integral of that vector field around a closed path
  • 1.4.7 The flux of a vector field through a surface
  • 1.4.8 Relationship between the divergence of a vector field and the flux of that vector field through a closed surface
  • 1.4.9 Divergence theorem
  • 1.4.10 Stokes theorem
  • 1.5 Static electric fields
  • 1.5.1 Coulomb's law
  • 1.5.2 Electric field produced by static charges is a conservative field
  • 1.5.3 Gauss's law
  • 1.5.4 Electric scalar potential
  • 1.5.5 Poisson and Laplace equations
  • 1.5.6 Concept of images
  • 1.5.7 Electrostatic boundary conditions
  • 1.6 Electric currents, charge conservation, and static magnetic fields
  • 1.6.1 Electric current
  • 1.6.2 Conservation of electric charge
  • 1.6.3 Re-distribution of excess charge placed inside a conducting body
  • 1.6.4 Magnetic field produced by a current element
  • Biot-Savarts law
  • 1.6.5 Gauss's law for magnetic fields
  • 1.6.6 Amperes law
  • 1.6.7 Boundary conditions for the static magnetic field
  • 1.6.8 Vector potential
  • 1.6.9 Force on a charged particle
  • 1.7 Energy density of an electric field
  • 1.8 Electrodynamics
  • time varying electric and magnetic fields
  • 1.8.1 Faraday's law
  • 1.8.2 Maxwell's modification of Ampere's law
  • the displacement current term
  • 1.8.3 Energy density in a magnetic field
  • 1.9 Summary of the laws of electricity
  • 1.10 Wave equation
  • 1.11 Maxwell's prediction of electromagnetic waves
  • 1.12 Plane wave solution
  • 1.12.1 The electric field of the plane wave
  • 1.12.2 The magnetic field of the plane wave
  • 1.12.3 Energy transported by a plane wave
  • Poynting's theorem
  • 1.13 Maxwell's equations and plane waves in different media (summary)
  • 1.13.1 Vacuum
  • 1.13.2 Isotropic and linear dielectric and magnetic media
  • 1.13.3 Conducting media
  • 1.14 Retarded potentials
  • 1.15 Electromagnetic fields of a current element
  • electric dipole
  • 1.16 Electromagnetic fields of a lightning return stroke
  • References
  • 2 Application of electromagnetic fields of accelerating charges to obtain the electromagnetic fields of engineering return stroke models
  • 2.1 Introduction
  • 2.2 Electromagnetic fields of a moving charge
  • 2.3 Electromagnetic fields of a propagating current pulse
  • 2.4 Electromagnetic fields generated by a current pulse propagating from one point in space to another along a straight line with uniform velocity and without attenuation

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