Abstract
In this paper, the lightning discharge channel in the vicinity of vertical lightning protection rods is modeled in the frequency domain by a vertical mast antenna coupled with vertical parasitic elements. The ground is treated as linear, isotropic, and homogeneous lossy half-space. The vertical mast antenna and the rods are treated as a unique system as for boundary conditions that results in the electric field integral equation (EFIE) for the unknown current distributions along their axes. EFIE is numerically solved by using the method of moments and a polynomial approximation of the current distributions. The influence of the ground is taken into account through a Sommerfeld integral kernel modeled in a simple and very efficient way using one new approximation that can be classified as a two-image approximation. This approximation gives good results in the frequency domain for modeling in both near and far electromagnetic fields.
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