| Edition |
2nd edition. |
| Description |
1 online resource (925 pages) : illustrations. |
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text file PDF |
| Physical Medium |
monochrome |
| Series |
IET power and energy series ; 69
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IET power and energy series ; 69.
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| Summary |
With contributions from today's leading lightning engineers and researchers, this updated 2nd edition of Vernon Cooray's classic text, The Lightning Flash provides the reader with an essential introduction to lightning and its impact on electrical and electronic equipment. Providing the reader with a thorough background into almost every aspect of lightning and its impact on electrical and electronic equipment, this new edition is updated throughout and features eight new chapters that bring the science up to date. |
| Contents |
Charge structure and geographical variation of thunderclouds / Earle Williams -- Thunderstorm electrification mechanisms / Rohan Jayaratne -- Mechanism of electrical discharges / Vernon Cooray -- Mechanism of the lightning flash / Vernon Cooray -- Features of lightning flashes obtained from high-speed video recordings / Marcelo M.F. Saba, Tom A. Warner and Carina Schumann -- Rocket-and-wire triggered lightning experiments / Vladimir A. Rakov -- Tower initiated lightning discharges / Gerhard Diendorfer -- Computation of electromagnetic fields from lightning discharge / Rajeev Thottappillil -- Return stroke models with special attention to engineering applications / Vernon Cooray -- Return stroke speed models / Vernon Cooray -- On the various approximations to calculate lightning return stroke-generated electric and magnetic fields over finitely conducting ground / Vernan Cooray -- Interaction of electromagnetic fields generated by lightning with overload electrical networks / Carlo Alberto Nucci and Farhad Rachidi -- Principles of protection of structures against lightning / Carlo Mazzetti -- Attachment of lightning flashes to grounded structures / Vernon Cooray -- Lightning and EMC / Michel Ianoz -- Electrical aspects of lightning strikes to humans / Chris Andrews -- Upper atmospheric electrical discharges / Ningyu Liu -- Energetic radiation from thunderstorms and lightning / Joseph R. Dwyer and Hamid K. Rassoul -- Global lightning nitrogen oxides production / William Koshak -- Lightning and global temperature change / Colin Price. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Language |
Text in English. |
| Subject |
Lightning protection.
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Lightning protection. |
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Construction -- General. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Cooray, Vernon, editor.
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| Added Title |
Lightning flash (Institution of Engineering and Technology)
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Lightning Flash (Institution of Engineering and Technology) 2nd Edition. London, United Kingdom : The Institution of Engineering and Technology, 2014 9781849196918 |
| ISBN |
9781849196925 (e-book) |
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1849196923 (e-book) |
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1322394849 (e-book) |
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9781322394848 (e-book) |
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9781849196918 |
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1849196915 |
| Music No. |
PBPO069E Institution of Engineering and Technology |
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