The characteristics of a train of electromagnetic pulses traveling along an unmagnetized, unbounded lightning plasma column are considered. The motivation is to avoid the loss of low-flying, computer-controlled aircraft on account of very small lightning-radiated electromagnetic fields including parasitic currents in the onboard computing equipment. From Ampere's and Faraday's laws, applying appropriate boundary conditions at the edge of the channel and far away from it, the solution to the complex wave number, as well as the attenuation and phase constants of the signals traveling down the channel, is found. The results are shown to be in good agreement with observed return stroke characteristics


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    Title :

    Guided waves along an unmagnetized lightning plasma channel


    Additional title:

    Gefuehrte Wellen entlang eines nichtmagnetisierten Blitz-Plasmakanals


    Contributors:


    Publication date :

    1988


    Size :

    3 Seiten, 15 Quellen



    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English




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