Lightning Physics and Lightning Protection

authors provide a comprehensive and up-to-date

review of lightning, including its hazards and

protection techniques. The book considers:

The mechanisms of lightning discharge

processes: the initiation of a leader, return stroke

and subsequent components, using experimental

data and theory.

The effects of large aircraft, high-voltage lines

and other high-altitude constructions on lightning

trajectory and leader attraction.

The action of lightning's electrical and magnetic

fields and the lightning current on industrial

premises, power transmission lines, underground

communications, aircraft and their electrical

circuits and the induction of a dangerous

overvoltage.

Effectiveness of conventional protective

measures, and gives technical advice and

practical recommendations.

The prospects for the preventive control of a

lightning leader.

The reader will not find here all numerous

observations on lightning, but measurements

useful for the understanding of lightning and its

effects are selected and critically discussed. The

clear, straightforward and systematic

presentation of complicated material, a deep

insight into the physics of lightning, a wide use of

simple analytical estimats as well as a detailed

illustration of effects by computer simulation

create a book that will be of use to a wide circle

of professional and advanced students of

physics, geophysics, electro-, power-, radio-,

aircraft- and spacecraft engineers, who

investigate lightning phenomena and have to

solve practical protection problems. It will help a

specialist involved in new technology to foresee

possible hazardous effects, providing them with

the information necessary to control the

destructive action of lightning.