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On the Use of Benford’s Law to Assess the Quality of the Data Provided by Lightning Locating Systems

Farhad Rachidi-Haeri, Marcos Rubinstein, Amirhossein Mostajabi, Wolfgang Schulz

Lightning causes significant damage and casualties globally by directly striking humans and livestock, by igniting forest fires, and by inducing electrical surges in electronic infrastructure, airplanes, rockets, etc. Monitoring the evolution of thundersto ...

2022

The Geometry and Charge of the Streamer Bursts Generated by Lightning Rods under the Influence of High Electric Fields

Farhad Rachidi-Haeri, Marcos Rubinstein

The streamer bursts generated during the initiation and propagation of leaders play an important role in the creation and maintenance of hot discharge channels in air. The most important parameters related to streamer bursts in this respect are the length ...

2022

Secondary Fast Breakdown in Narrow Bipolar Events

Farhad Rachidi-Haeri, Marcos Rubinstein, Dongshuai Li

The physical mechanism of Narrow bipolar events (NBEs) has been studied for decades but it still holds many mysteries. Recent observations indicate that the fast breakdown discharges that produce NBEs sometimes contain a secondary fast breakdown that propa ...

2022

The application of the finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) technique to lightning studies

Farhad Rachidi-Haeri, Marcos Rubinstein, Dongshuai Li

We have seen in this chapter that the FDTD method for solving Maxwell's equations is accurate and versatile in a very wide variety of applications related to lightning. One can analyze the lightning electromagnetic field propagation over distances ranging ...

IET2022

Säntis lightning research facility: a summary of the first ten years and future outlook

Farhad Rachidi-Haeri, Marcos Rubinstein

The Säntis Tower was instrumented in May 2010 to measure currents of lightning discharges striking the structure. Since then, the system has been recurrently updated and expanded. Presently, data associated with lightning striking the tower are collected a ...

Springer2022

A Prony-Based Approach for Accelerating the Lightning Electromagnetic Fields Computation: Effect of the Soil Finite Conductivity

Farhad Rachidi-Haeri, Marcos Rubinstein

This work provides an approach for speeding up the evaluation of lightning ElectroMagnetic (EM) fields in the case of a finite soil conductivity. The soil conductivity is taken into account through the well-known Cooray-Rubinstein (CR) approximation, which ...

Elsevier2022

Partial discharge localization using time reversal: Application to gas insulated switchgear

Farhad Rachidi-Haeri, Marcos Rubinstein, Hamidreza Karami

Gas-insulated switchgear (GIS) are some of the most reliable and most expensive equipment that are nowadays used in power systems. Condition monitoring of the power system equipment can help operators detect defects like partial discharges (PDs) early, pre ...

Elsevier2022

Comment on “Straight lightning as a signature of macroscopic dark matter”

Farhad Rachidi-Haeri, Marcos Rubinstein

In the discussed paper [N. Starkman, H. Winch, J. S. Sidhu, and G. Starkman, Straight lightning as a signature of macroscopic dark matter, Phys. Rev. D 103, 063024 (2021)], the authors have made several assumptions and statements concerning the initiation ...

2022

Source Reconstruction Method Using Phase-Less Magnetic Near-Field Measurements: Application of the Method of Moment with Roof-Top Basis Functions

Marcos Rubinstein, Hamidreza Karami

Source reconstruction methods have many applications such as antenna diagnosis, calculating far-field radiated emissions, and identifying incompatible sources on integrated circuits or printed circuit boards. In this paper, the Gerchberg-Saxton algorithm i ...

IEEE2022

X-rays associated with stepping of the dart leader in upward negative lightning discharges at the Säntis Tower: Preliminary results

Farhad Rachidi-Haeri, Marcos Rubinstein, David Smith, Antonio Sunjerga

2022

A self-consistent lightning return stroke model capable of predicting the effect of the ground conductivity and the current reflection at the strike point on the generated electromagnetic fields

Farhad Rachidi-Haeri, Marcos Rubinstein

2022

X-rays associated with the stepping of upward negative leaders at the Säntis Tower: Preliminary results

Farhad Rachidi-Haeri, Marcos Rubinstein, David Smith, Antonio Sunjerga

2022

The Laser Lightning Rod Project

Marcos Rubinstein, Jean-Pierre Wolf, Pierre Walch, Mohammad Azadifar, Amirhossein Mostajabi, Thomas Produit, Antonio Sunjerga, Victor Moreno

2022

Machine Learning Based Lightning Nowcasting using Single-Site Meteorological Observations and Lightning Location Systems Data

Farhad Rachidi-Haeri, Marcos Rubinstein, Amirhossein Mostajabi

2022

Guiding lightning with High-Power Lasers: Experiments at the Säntis Tower in Switzerland

Farhad Rachidi-Haeri, Marcos Rubinstein

2022

Analysis of Lightning Electromagnetic Field Propagation Over Mountainous Terrain using Simultaneous Records of Current and its Electric Field at 380-km Distance

Farhad Rachidi-Haeri, Marcos Rubinstein, Mohammad Azadifar, Dongshuai Li, Antonio Sunjerga

2022

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On the Use of Benford’s Law to Assess the Quality of the Data Provided by Lightning Locating Systems

The Geometry and Charge of the Streamer Bursts Generated by Lightning Rods under the Influence of High Electric Fields

Secondary Fast Breakdown in Narrow Bipolar Events

The application of the finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) technique to lightning studies

Säntis lightning research facility: a summary of the first ten years and future outlook

A Prony-Based Approach for Accelerating the Lightning Electromagnetic Fields Computation: Effect of the Soil Finite Conductivity

Partial discharge localization using time reversal: Application to gas insulated switchgear

Comment on “Straight lightning as a signature of macroscopic dark matter”

Source Reconstruction Method Using Phase-Less Magnetic Near-Field Measurements: Application of the Method of Moment with Roof-Top Basis Functions

X-rays associated with stepping of the dart leader in upward negative lightning discharges at the Säntis Tower: Preliminary results

A self-consistent lightning return stroke model capable of predicting the effect of the ground conductivity and the current reflection at the strike point on the generated electromagnetic fields

X-rays associated with the stepping of upward negative leaders at the Säntis Tower: Preliminary results

The Laser Lightning Rod Project

Machine Learning Based Lightning Nowcasting using Single-Site Meteorological Observations and Lightning Location Systems Data

Guiding lightning with High-Power Lasers: Experiments at the Säntis Tower in Switzerland

Analysis of Lightning Electromagnetic Field Propagation Over Mountainous Terrain using Simultaneous Records of Current and its Electric Field at 380-km Distance

Semi-Analytical Gray-Box Modeling of an Impulse Radiating Antenna

Lightning Electromagnetic Fields Computation: An Approach to Reduce the Computational Effort

An Efficient Computer Code for the Analysis of Grounding Systems Using the Method of Moments

Landmine Detection Using Electromagnetic Time Reversal Based Methods