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Could Macroscopic Dark Matter (Macros) Give Rise to Mini-Lightning Flashes out of a Blue Sky without Clouds?

Farhad Rachidi-Haeri, Marcos Rubinstein

A recent study pointed out that macroscopic dark matter (macros) traversing through the Earth’s atmosphere can give rise to hot and ionized channels similar to those associated with lightning leaders. The authors of the study investigated the possibility t ...

2021

An Engineering Model to Represent Positive Return Strokes—An Extension of the Modified Transmission Line (MTL) Model

Farhad Rachidi-Haeri, Marcos Rubinstein

An engineering model to represent positive return strokes is introduced as an extension of the Modified Transmission Line model with Linear Current Decay (MTLL). This extension is grounded in experimental data on the electric fields and currents associated ...

MDPI AG2024

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

Säntis Lightning Research Facility Instrumentation

Mario Paolone, Farhad Rachidi-Haeri, Marcos Rubinstein, Davide Pavanello, Mohammad Azadifar, Antonio Sunjerga, Amirhossein Mostajabi, Abraham Rubinstein, Carlos Alberto Romero Romero

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

2021

On wire-grid representation of solid metallic surfaces

Farhad Rachidi-Haeri, Marcos Rubinstein, Abraham Rubinstein

This paper deals with the wire-grid representation of metallic surfaces in numerical electromagnetic modeling. We discuss in particular the adequacy of the well known and widely used equal area rule (EAR) to calculate the radii of wire-grid models. We show ...

2005

Field-to-Transmission Line Coupling Models With Special Attention to the Cooray–Rubinstein Approximation

Marcos Rubinstein

There are three equivalent procedures to evaluate the voltages induced by lightning on power lines, namely, the Agrawal–Price–Gurbaxani model, the Taylor–Satterwhite–Harrison model, and the Rachidi model. The Cooray–Rubinstein approximation is a procedure ...

2021

On the adequacy of standardized lightning current waveform for composite structures for aircraft and wind turbine blades

Farhad Rachidi-Haeri, Marcos Rubinstein, Anastasios Vassilopoulos, Aleksandr Smorgonskii

The standard lightning waveforms used for the testing of aircraft are based on downward lightning. However, there is evidence suggesting that lightning to aircraft is different from negative downward lightning. Also, carbon fiber composite materials are be ...

Ieee2016

Field-to-transmission line coupling models

Farhad Rachidi-Haeri, Marcos Rubinstein, Carlo Alberto Nucci

This chapter presents the coupling of lightning electromagnetic fields to overhead and underground lines based on the transmission line approximation. The chapter starts with an introductory section in which the advantages and the drawbacks of three approa ...

IET2020

Laser-guided lightning using kHz filamentation at 1030 nm

Farhad Rachidi-Haeri, Marcos Rubinstein, Antonio Sunjerga, Amirhossein Mostajabi

Controlling lightning is a long-time dream of mankind. Along with the rapid evolution of laser technologies, the idea to develop lightning protection based on filamentation of high-power ultrashort-pulse lasers emerged in the 1990s [1]. The goal of the Las ...

2023

Physics and technology of Laser Lightning Control

Farhad Rachidi-Haeri, Marcos Rubinstein

The recent development of high average, high peak power lasers has revived the effort of using lasers as a potential tool to influence natural lightning. Although impressive, the current progress in laser lightning control technology may only be the beginn ...

IOP Publishing2024

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

Review of the electromagnetic compatibility PLC work at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (Lausanne) and the University of Applied Sciences of Western Switzerland (Yverdon)

Farhad Rachidi-Haeri, Marcos Rubinstein, José-Luis Bermudez, Ana Vukicevic

In this paper, we give an overview of the experimental and theoretical PLC- related research work carried out in close cooperation by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology and the University Of Applied Sciences Of Western Switzerland. The work is condu ...

2006

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

On the proportion of upward flashes to lightning research towers

Farhad Rachidi-Haeri, Marcos Rubinstein, Aleksandr Smorgonskii

We compare in this paper direct measurements obtained at the Towers on Mount San Salvatore (Switzerland) and the Gaisberg Tower (Austria). They are situated in similar topographical environments but in different lightning activity zones. Direct measurement ...

IEEE2011

On the Initiation of Upward Negative Lightning by Nearby Lightning Activity: An Analytical Approach

Marcos Rubinstein, Antonio Sunjerga

Upward lightning occurs generally from tall structures. The mechanism of the initiation of upward lightning is not yet fully understood. Upward lightning can be classified into two categories based on either the absence or the presence of other lightning a ...

2021

A Current Propagation Type Return Stroke Model Consistent with the Leader Charge Distribution

Farhad Rachidi-Haeri, Marcos Rubinstein

We describe a current propagation type return stroke model which is consistent with the estimated distribution of the charge on the leader channel. The model takes into account the dispersion of the return stroke current along the return stroke channel. Th ...

2021

Two Possible Scenarios for the Formation of Category 1 Bipolar Lightning Flashes

Marcos Rubinstein, Davide Pavanello, Mohammad Azadifar, Quanxin Li

We present and discuss the current and electric field waveforms associated with two upward bipolar lightning flashes that occurred at the Säntis Tower. According to the traditional classification of bipolar flashes, both observed flashes could be classifie ...

2019

An Analysis of the Distribution of Inter-Flash Time Intervals in the Area of the Santis Tower

Farhad Rachidi-Haeri, Marcos Rubinstein, Antonio Sunjerga

In this paper we analyzed the time intervals between flashes in the Santis area for three highly active storms and also for a period of 21 months. The overall distributions of inter-flash time interval are found to be very similar and reasonably represente ...

IEEE2018

Landmine Detection Using Electromagnetic Time Reversal‐Based Methods: 2. Performance Analysis of TR‐MUSIC

Farhad Rachidi-Haeri, Marcos Rubinstein, Carlos Alberto Romero Romero, Hamidreza Karami

In this paper, a series of numerical simulations are conducted for various 2D and 3D configurations to demonstrate the performance of the Time Reversal MUltiple SIgnal Classification (TR‐MUSIC) method. The results reveal the excellent performance of TR‐MUS ...

American Geophysical Union (AGU)2024

Bidirectional Recoil Leaders in Upward Lightning Flashes Observed at the Säntis Tower

Farhad Rachidi-Haeri, Marcos Rubinstein, Mohammad Azadifar, Antonio Sunjerga, Amirhossein Mostajabi

We report the observation of three negative upward flashes recorded by a high-speed camera at the Säntis Tower during the Summer of 2019. The camera was operating at 10,000 fps and an exposure time of 99 μs. Simultaneous measurements of the lightning curre ...

2021