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Efficiency assessment of the external lightning protection system

This paper presents an algorithm for the efficiency assessment of the lightning protection system of the buildings and electric power plants. Lightning strikes are simulated using the Monte Carlo method in combination with the electrogeometric model. In the stochastic model, lightning protection system and the protected structure are represented with a number of straight segments, triangles and plane quadrangles. Efficiency of the lightning protection system is obtained as a quotient between the total number of simulated strikes ending up on the lightning protection system and the total number of lightning strikes ending up on the lightning protection system and protected structure.

efficiency assessment; Monte Carlo method; electrogeometric model; lightning protection system

Zbornik s punim tekstom rada izdan je samo kao CD ROM. Prošireni sažeci radova objavljeni su u tiskanom zborniku Proceedings of extended abstracts of the 9th International Conference on Applied Electromagnetics PES 2009 (ISBN 978-86-85195-83-9) ; Perić, Zoran (ur.) ; str. 71-72