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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Pramoninio dažnio elektromagnetinių laukų tyrimas / Research of industrial frequency electromagnetic fields

Morozionkov, Jevgenij 13 June 2006 (has links)
Literary review, according to theoretical and experimental researches, it was noticed that electromagnetic fields of industrial frequency influence the human and environment. Power force of low frequentative electromagnetic beaming is little. However electromagnetic beams of these low frequentative domains have clearly expressed electrical and magnetic fields which affect the separate parts of human body. The most sensitive parts to the effect of electromagnetic fields are the nervous system and the neuroendocrine system. The biggest sources of electromagnetic fields are the domestic appliances, the installations of electricity transmission, transference and the distributing installations in residential and working places. Electromagnetic fields are generated with electric installations and spread in space by 1/r3; 1/r2 and 1/r law. It is typical of the value change of electric and magnetic fields. Parameter value of electromagnetic fields is solved with electricity installations tension, stream and the location of analyzed point in point of installations. Summing up the wide energetic net of our country, the fact of usable electric installations (which create electromagnetic fields in residential and working places) assume the marked social signification, there is posed the opportunity to forecast the available values of low electromagnetic fields effect, and to forecast means to remove it.
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Modelování elektromagnetických polí v biologoických tkáních / Electromagnetic field mapping in biological tissues

Bereznanin, Martin January 2010 (has links)
The main objective of this study is to learn about the theory of electromagnetic field and to create a model of propagation of ultra short waves in a biological tissue. Next point of this paper is to determine a specific absorption rate (SAR) using a valid sanitary standard. A particular model solution was realized in a model environment of the program Comsol Multiphysics 3.5. A human head and a cellular phone with an intern antenna were successfully created in this model environment. First of all were entered appropriate parameters which led to a successful representation of the distribution of electric field intensity. A value of specific absorption rate taken by a biological tissue was determined in the next step. This value was compared to the value listed in a valid sanitary standard to prevent its overrun. A development of a temperature in a biological tissue was determined as well, according to a six minutes long interval stated in a valid sanitary standard.
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Difrakce na prostorových a/nebo hlubokých objektech / Diffraction on Spatial and/or Deep Objects

Hrabec, Aleš January 2008 (has links)
This discourse deals with a theoretical study of the radiation passage through a diffraction screen with non-zero size in the propagation direction of the radiation, i.e. the radiation passage through a three-dimensional object. Without any loss of generality, we solve the problem for cylindrical cavity in metal. The task exceeds evidently standard scalar theory of diffraction, thus we solve the problem using a waveguiding theory. Following the principles of the electromagnetic theory, we derive required formulae to determine mode distribution at the entry of the cavity. Further, we solve numerically the radiation propagation through the cavity, then we actually seek for radiation distribution at the very end of the cavity. This yields, with a help of the discrete Fourier transform, an intensity distribution of Fraunhofer diffraction pattern, consequently compared with an intesity distribution of the radiation pattern of Fraunhofer diffraction on infinitely thin circular opening having the radius of the cylinder cavity under study. A comparison of such patterns results to a conclusion, that the cavity length has a significatn influence on the diffraction pattern and more importantly, that the scalar diffraction theory appears incorrect for a coherent light passage through cavities longer than their radius squared. Similarly, the same conclusion is inversely proportional to a wavelength of the interacting radiation. Finally, we mention an existence of the so called "focal regime", when the radiation repeatedly exhibits roughly one order increased intensity on the symmetry axis of the cavity.
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Pulzní elektromagnetické záření štěrbinových antén / Pulsed Electromagnetic Field Radiation from Slot Antennas

Štumpf, Martin January 2011 (has links)
Jednoduché dvojrozměrné anténní zářiče, které slouží jako stavební bloky anténních polí, jsou analyticky analyzovány v časové oblasti. Jako hlavní nástroj pro analýzu je použita Cagniard-DeHoopova metoda. Je ukázáno, že zvolený přístup umožňuje získat přesné vzorce v časové oblasti v uzavřeném tvaru, které jasně demonstrují vliv vstupních parametrů a objasňují fyzikální podstatu pulsního elektromagnetického vyzařování. Dané numerické výsledky ilustrují důležité aspekty pulsního elektromagnetického záření v rozličných konfiguracích problémů. Získané výsledky jsou užitečné pro efektivní návrh anténních polí, které jsou buzeny pulsními signály.
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Výpočet dynamických sil jističe 630A / Calculation of electrodynamic forces in 630 A circuit breaker

Staněk, Pavel January 2016 (has links)
The aim of this thesis is to simulate the action of electrodynamic forces on current carrying path and a movable contact of the circuit breaker OEZ Modeion BH 630NE. For the calculation there is used the simulation program Ansys Maxwell. The first part is devoted to theoretical analysis of electromagnetic forces on a conductor in a magnetic field. Further I discuss the constructional design of the circuit breaker itself, especially the current path and the contact mechanism. In the next part there is (with using program Autodesk Inventor) created a simplified 3D model of the current path including an arc chamber. With program Ansys Maxwell then there is performed simulation of the acting of forces in each mode. This is magnetostatic and transient analysis for symmetrical and asymmetrical flow of the fault current. In conclusion the results obtained are evaluated and processed in the tabular way.
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HIGH-DEFINITION WIRELESS PERSONAL AREA TRACKING USING AC MAGNETIC FIELD

Mohit Singh (7301198) 31 January 2022 (has links)
<div>Over the past few decades, the focus of wireless communication technology has been shrinking in terms of coverage area. It started with WMAN (Wireless Metropolitan Area Network), moved to WLAN (Wireless Local Area Network) and WPAN (Wireless Personal Area Network), and is soon expected to move to WBAN (Wireless Body Area Network). Wireless positioning/location services present a perfect analogy to wireless communication services. It started with the use of GPS (Global Positioning System), is moving to Local Area Positioning System (LPS) and will be soon moving to Personal and Body Area Positioning Systems (BPS) in the future.</div><div><br></div>This thesis presents the development of a high-speed and high-accuracy wireless magnetic positioning system which can locate the position and orientation of the sensor in real-time with a sub-mm level accuracy in body area. The system consists of an antenna (transmitter) and one or multiple sensors (receivers). The sensor module consists of a tri-axis AC magnetic field sensor, an orientation sensor, a micro-controller and a communication unit. The system is robust to multi-path, low-power, low-cost and provides complete location privacy to its users. Possible implementations of this technology could be in the field of gaming, media entertainment, security, robotics, bio medical, motion-capture and home-automation. The ultra-low latency of the system and its ability to track the sensor anywhere around the antenna without occlusion makes it a perfect candidate to be used as a Virtual/Augment Reality (VR/AR) input device.
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Additively Manufactured Ti-6Al-4V Biomimetic Lattice Structures for Patient-Specific Orthopedic Implants: The Effect of Unit Cell Geometry, Pore Size, and Pulsed Electromagnetic Field Stimulation on the Osseointegration of MG-63 Cells in Vitro, Mechanical Properties, and Surface Characterization

Papazoglou, Dimitri Pierre 15 May 2023 (has links)
No description available.
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[pt] ESTUDO DA PROPAGAÇÃO ELETROMAGNÉTICA EM MEIOS ANISOTRÓPICOS ESTRATIFICADOS VIA MÉTODOS SEMIANALÍTICOS / [en] STUDY OF THE ELECTROMAGNETIC PROPAGATION IN STRATIFIED ANISOTROPIC MEDIA VIA SEMI-ANALYTICAL METHODS

04 November 2020 (has links)
[pt] As ferramentas de perfilagem eletromagnética para poços e túneis têm sido objeto de interesse da engenharia por muitas décadas devido às suas aplicações para a exploração de petróleo. A fim de obter uma avaliação precisa de uma formação geofísica, uma ampla variedade de métodos de eletromagnetismo computacional foi desenvolvida. O alto custo em termos de recursos computacionais para o procedimento da discretização espacial é um ponto negativo desses métodos tradicionais. Esta pesquisa tem como objetivo explorar novas abordagens semianalíticas para analisar a propagação de campos eletromagnéticos em meios anisotrópicos compreendendo camadas planares. Apresentaremos uma formulação matemática para os campos eletromagnéticos de uma fonte solenoidal em termos de um somatório de autofunções modais. O método proposto permite a análise de cenários geofísicos análogos aos do Pré-Sal brasileiro, onde rochas carbonáticas de alta condutividade são predominantes. Além disso, o efeito das formações do pré e pós-sal nas ondas eletromagnéticas pode ser facilmente incorporadas no nosso modelo. Apresentaremos resultados numéricos de validação, que demonstram o potencial da abordagem proposta neste trabalho para modelar sensores geofísicos de forma computacionalmente robusta e eficiente. / [en] Electromagnetic well-logging tools have been subject of interest for many decades due to their applications in oil exploration. In order to obtain accurate formation evaluation, a wide variety of numerical methods have been developed on Computational Electromagnetics. The high cost in terms of computational time and resources of these methods for the spatial discretization procedure is a negative point of these traditional methods. In this work, we will explore new semi-analytical approaches to analyze the propagation of electromagnetic fields in anisotropic media comprising planar layers. We will present a mathematical formulation for the electromagnetic fields due to a solenoid source in terms of a sum of modal eigenfunctions. The proposed method allows the analysis of geophysical scenarios similar to those of the Brazilian Pre-Salt, where high conductivity carbonate rocks are predominant. In addition, the effect of pre- and post-salt formations on electromagnetic waves can be easily incorporated into our model. We will present numerical validation results, which demonstrate the potential of the approach proposed in this work to model geophysical sensors in a computationally robust and efficient way.
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Assessment of Exposure to Electromagnetic Fields from Distributed MIMO Antennas / Bedömning av elektromagnetisk exponering från distribuerade MIMO antenner

Nyberg Zou, Frans January 2022 (has links)
Research on 6G telecommunication networks has been initiated. Among all potential technology components, the distributed multi-input multioutput (D-MIMO) technology is one of the promising enablers. Due to the new technology solutions, additional methodologies for assessment of electromagnetic field (EMF) exposure need to be developed. This study provides methodologies and results for EMF exposure from D-MIMO operating at 3.5 GHz in an indoor industrial environment using CST Studio Suite®. The D-MIMO access points (APs) are mounted on the 7 m ceiling. The EMF exposure is statistically evaluated in a subvolume that extends up to 2.5 m above the floor, using receiving antennas that are pseudorandomly distributed over space. The resulting EMF exposure levels of DMIMO were compared to those of a ceiling-mounted reference massive MIMO array, considering different receiving antenna orientations and AP densities. The results from zero forcing (ZF) precoding were compared to those based on maximum ratio transmission (MRT) precoding. For a total radiated power of 1 W, the 99th-percentile power density values in the D-MIMO deployment are found to be 2.9 mW/m2 or lower, in all studied cases using the MRT-based precoding. This is about 0.03 % of the EMF exposure limits for the general public specified in international guidelines. The corresponding results from the reference massive MIMO array are found to be 7.7 mW/m2 or lower. In the ZF precoding case, the total radiated power and the EMF exposure levels are reduced and the reduction in the D-MIMO deployment is found greater than the reduction in the massive MIMO array. At the 99th-percentile, the power density value is found to be 0.090 mW/m2 in one of the cases of D-MIMO deployment and 5.1 mW/m2 in the corresponding case with the massive MIMO array. The effects of receiving antenna orientations and AP density on the EMF exposure levels are found to be small. This work benefits further studies by providing estimates of realistic EMF exposure and by demonstrating a simulation method for EMF exposure assessment for D-MIMO. / Forskning inom 6G har påbörjats. Bland de möjliga teknologierna för 6G är distribuerad multi-input multi-output (D-MIMO) ett lovande koncept som möjliggör 6G. På grund av den nya teknologin förväntas nya metoder behövas för bedömning av exponering för elektromagnetiska fält. I denna studie utvecklades och användes metoder för simulering av elektromagnetisk exponering från D-MIMO på frekvensen 3.5 GHz i en industriell inomhusmiljö i CST Studio Suite®. En statistisk behandling av exponeringsnivåer utfördes för pseudoslumpmässiga fördelningar av mottagarantenner. Antennerna i nätverket var placerade intill taket på 7 meters höjd och exponeringsnivån mättes i en delvolym som sträcker sig från golvet till 2.5 m höjd. Jämförelser gjordes med massiv MIMO som referens, och mellan olika vinklar hos mottagarantenner och tätheter av uppkopplingspunkter i nätverket. Antennloberna riktades med zero forcing (ZF) och en metod baserad på maximum ratio transmission (MRT). Med MRT och en total utsänd effekt på 1 W, var 99th-percentilen för elektromagnetisk fältintensitet från D-MIMO 2.9 mW/m2 eller lägre i alla studerade fall, vilket är 0.03 % av den internationella referensnivån för elektromagnetisk exponering. Motsvarande nivå för massiv MIMO var 7.7 mW/m2 eller lägre. Med ZF reducerades den totala utsända effekten och reduktionen i exponeringsnivån var större för D-MIMO än för massiv MIMO. I ett av de studerade fallen var 99th-percentilen från D-MIMO 0.090 mW/m2 , och motsvarande nivå för massivt MIMO var 5.1 mW/m2 eller lägre, Effekterna av vinklar hos mottagarantenner och tätheter av uppkopplingspunkter var liten. Detta arbete bidrar till framtida studier inom ämnet genom att ange uppskattningar av realistiska exponeringsnivåer och genom att demonstrera en metod för simulering av exponeringsnivåer för D-MIMO.
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Transient Lightning Electromagnetic Field Coupling With An Airborne Vehicle In The Presence Of Its Conducting Exhaust Plume

Nayak, Sisir Kumar 12 1900 (has links)
The indirect effects of a nearby lightning strike on an airborne vehicle with its long trailing conducting plume is not well understood. Since airborne vehicles and its payload are expensive, their loss as a result of either a direct strike or due to the induced current and voltage of a nearby lightning strike is not desirable. The electromagnetic field generated due to the induced current on the skin of the vehicle may get coupled with the internal circuitry through the apertures on the vehicle body. If the coupled electromagnetic energy is more than the damage threshold level of the sensitive devices of the control circuit, they may fail which may lead to aborting the mission or a possible degradation in the vehicle performance. It has been reported that lightning induced phenomena was the cause of malfunctioning as well as aborting of some of the lunar missions. So in the present work, the computation of induced current and voltage on the skin of the vehicle body in the presence of an ionized long trailing exhaust plume has been attempted. The lightning channel is assumed to be vertical to the ground plane and extends up to a height of 7.5 km. The radiated electric and magnetic fields from the lightning channel at different heights from 10 m to 10 km and for lateral distances varying from 20 m to 10 km from the lightning channel are computed and the field waveforms are presented. For the computation of the radiated electric and magnetic fields from the lightning channel, modified transmission line with exponential current decay (MTLE) model for representing the lightning channel and the Heidler’s expression for the lightning channel base current are used. The peak amplitude of the lightning current used is 12 kA with a maximum current derivative of 40 kA/µs. It is seen that the vertical electric field in general, is bipolar in nature and that the height at which the change in polarity reversal takes place increases with increase of lateral distance from the lightning channel. The vertical electric field just above the ground is unipolar for all lateral distances from the channel and this is because the contribution due to the image of the lightning channel dominates the vertical electric field. The horizontal electric field is always unipolar for all heights and all lateral distances from the lightning channel studied. The effect of variation in the rate of rise of lightning current (di/dt) and the velocity of lightning current on the radiated electric and magnetic fields for the above heights and distances have also been studied. It is seen that the variation in maximum current derivative does not have a significant influence on the electric field when ground is assumed as a perfect conductor but it influences significantly the horizontal electric field when ground has finite conductivity. The velocity of propagation of lightning current on the other hand has a significant influence for both perfectly as well as finitely conducting ground conditions. For the computation of the induced current and voltage on the body of the airborne vehicle due to the coupling of the above mentioned electromagnetic fields radiated from a near by lightning discharge, the vehicle and its exhaust plume have been modeled as a transmission line and Finite Difference Time Domain (FDTD) numerical technique has been used for the computation. Regardless of the vehicle size, the structure can be modeled as a nonuniform transmission line consisting of a series of sections consisting of capacitive and inductive components. These components of the vehicle and its exhaust plume are computed using the Method of Moment (MoM) technique. The interaction of the electromagnetic wave with the plume depends on the electrical conductivity as well as the gas dynamic characteristics of the plume. Hence, in this research work an attempt has also been made to study the electrical conductivity (σe) and permittivity (εe) as well as the gas dynamic properties of the exhaust plume taking into consideration its turbulent nature. In general, the airborne vehicle can be considered as perfectly conducting (conductivity 3x107 S/m) where as the plume has finite conductivity. The electrical properties of an airborne vehicle exhaust plume such as electrical conductivity and the permittivity and their distribution along axial and radial directions depend on several factors. They are (i) propellant composition, (ii) impurity content in the propellants which generate ionic charge particles in the exhaust and (iii) the characteristics of the exhaust plume intensive parameters such as temperature, pressure, velocity and the presence of shock waves. These properties of the exhaust plume are computed in the two separate regions of interest as discussed next. The first region is inside the combustion chamber and up to the nozzle throat of the vehicle and the second region is from the throat to the exterior i.e., the ambient atmosphere or the downstream of the plume. In the first region where chemical reaction kinetics have to be considered, NASA Chemical Equilibrium with Application (CEA) software package has been used to compute the intensive parameters of the fluid at the throat of the nozzle. The pressure in the combustion chamber is taken as 4410 kPa and the back pressure at the exit plane is taken as 101.325 kPa. In the second region, FLUENT software package have been used for the fluid dynamic study of the exhaust plume from the vehicle nozzle throat to the exterior domain. The data obtained from the first region using CEA provides the parameters at the nozzle throat that are used as input parameters for the second region. In the study, a conical nozzle configuration of throat radius (rt) of 0.0185 m (nozzle exit plane radius is 0.05 m), half cone angle of 18º and nozzle expansion ratio (Ae/At) of 7.011 are used. The contour plot of the intensive parameters of the exhaust plume and the mass fraction of the charged particles are presented. The vehicle exhaust flow passes through different types of expansion and compression waves. In the present work, simulation is done for a slightly under expanded nozzle i.e. nozzle exit static pressure is slightly more than the ambient static pressure. Since the exit pressure is more than the ambient pressure, the exhaust gases expand to reach the ambient pressure. As the expansion waves reach the contact discontinuity (i.e. the boundary where the outer edge of the gas flow meets the free stream air), they again reflect back inward to create compression waves. These compression waves force the flow to turn back inward and increase its pressure. If the compression waves are strong enough, they will merge into an oblique shock wave. In the present work, more than eight such barrel shocks are captured. When the shock waves are generated, Mach number reduces sharply and static temperature and static pressure increases where as the total temperature of the exhaust remains constant in the shock wave formations. The characteristics of the plume such as pressure, temperature, velocity and concentration of the charged particles (i.e., e¯, Na+ and Cl¯) and neutral species such as CO, CO2 , Cl, H, HCl, H2O, H2 , N2, Na, NaCl, O, OH and O2 along axial and radial directions in the external domain have been studied. The above parameters are used to compute the collision frequencies and plasma frequencies of the charged particles as well as the number density of the species along axial and radial directions of the exhaust plume. These parameters are used to compute the effective conductivity distribution in the axial and radial directions for an incident electromagnetic field of frequency 1 MHz. The peak value of the conductivity computed is 0.12 S/m near the exit plane and it reduces to 0.02 S/m at an axial distance of 7.5 m from the exit plane which is well within the range suggested in the published literature. It has been observed that the oscillation in the conductivity along axial direction is a reflection of the shock wave formation in the exhaust plume. The electrical conductivity and the relative permittivity of the exhaust plume have been computed for three different radii of the nozzle at the exit plane i.e., 0.025 m, 0.05 m and 0.075 m. It is seen that the distribution of the conductivity and relative permittivity along the axial direction of the exhaust are independent of the nozzle exit plane radius. To study the coupling of lightning electromagnetic field with the vehicle and its exhaust plume two cases have been considered. These are (i) when the vehicle and its exhaust plume are at certain height above the ground and (ii) when the exhaust plume is touching the ground. The dimensions of the vehicle used in the study are as follows: length of the vehicle is 20 m and the length of its exhaust plume is 75 m. The radius of the vehicle is taken as 0.5 m. The vehicle and its exhaust plume are assumed to be at a lateral distance of 250 m from the lightning channel. In case one, when the vehicle and its inhomogeneous exhaust plume tip is at a height of 10 m above the ground, both the ends are open. So the reflection coefficients of the current wave and voltage wave at the end points are -1 and +1 respectively irrespective of the characteristic impedances of the vehicle and its exhaust plume. So when the reflected current propagates it will tend to reduce along the length of the object. Hence, the induced current at the end points are zero and the currents in the end segments are less than those in the intermediate segments. The spatial distribution of the peak magnitude of the time varying induced current, |Imax|, in each segment along the length of the vehicle without and with the exhaust plume are presented. In case of vehicle without plume, the maximum value of the induced current is at the middle segment of the vehicle and its value is 4.8 A. The presence of the inhomogeneous plume enhances the maximum value of the induced current to 33 A and its position is shifted to the exhaust plume side. When the voltage wave propagates, it will enhance the induced voltage in the vehicle body. The time varying potential difference between the end points of the vehicle without plume and the vehicle with its exhaust plume which drives the induced current are computed and it is seen that the potential difference for the vehicle without plume is unipolar whereas it is bipolar for the vehicle with exhaust plume. The lightning induced current on the skin of the vehicle will generate an electromagnetic field which may couple with the internal electronic devices and circuits through the apertures. The amount of electromagnetic energy that will be transmitted through an aperture on the vehicle skin and coupled with the internal electronic equipments depends on the characteristics of the induced current on the skin of the vehicle, the electrical size, shape, orientation and location of the aperture and the location of the internal electronic devices with respect to the aperture. So the time varying induced current and its di/dt at three different locations on the vehicle body i.e., tail of the vehicle, middle of the vehicle and vehicle nose are computed. It is seen that the induced current on the vehicle and its di/dt in the absence of the plume are oscillating in nature but they are critically damped in the presence of the trailing inhomogeneous exhaust plume. It also shows that the enhancement of induced current and its di/dt at the tail are much more than at the middle or at the nose of the vehicle which is true for an electrically short vehicle i.e., lv/λmin ≈ 0.067 as cited in the literature. So the presence of an aperture on the skin of the vehicle near to tail will transmit maximum electromagnetic energy into the inside of the vehicle. Therefore during design of the electrically short airborne vehicles, any aperture should be avoided near the tail of the vehicle or internal electronic devices should be placed away from the tail of the vehicle. In case 2, when the plume is touching the ground, the transient induced current in the plume will propagate into the soil. The effective impedance for smaller currents will be quite high (the inductance and capacitance effect are not taken into consideration for calculating the impedance. So the impedance of the soil is dominated by only the resistance). However, as soon as the current exceeds a certain value, the resulting soil gradient can reach the breakdown gradient of the soil i.e., 200-500 kV/m as cited in literature resulting in soil ionization. This will effectively lower the soil impedance. These dynamic characteristics of the soil resistance with induced current are incorporated by considering the expression for the soil resistance. To study the effect of soil resistivity on the time varying induced current and the voltage, computations have been done for various resistivities of the soil i.e., 0 Ωm, 100 Ωm and 200 Ωm. For soil resistivity of 0 Ωm, the reflection coefficients at the ground and at the open ends for the current wave are +1 and -1 respectively. So at the ground end, the reflected current wave will enhance and at the open end it will diminish as it propagates along the length of the vehicle and its exhaust. As the resistivity of the soil increases, the reflection coefficient of the current at the ground end decreases from +1, so the peak magnitude of the current reduces along the length till the length is half of the total length of the plume and the vehicle. Therefore, the peak magnitude of the induced current in the ground segment is much more than the peak magnitude of the current in the segment at the open end. For a finitely conducting plume, the peak value of the potential difference between the two ends of the vehicle and its exhaust plume are 92 kV, 91 kV and 90 kV for soil resistivities of 0 Ωm 100 Ωm and 200 Ωm respectively. Therefore the influence of the soil resistivity on the induced current is found to be not much significant. The spatial distribution of the peak magnitude of the time varying induced current in each segment along the length of the vehicle with inhomogeneous exhaust plume for the above three different soil resistivities are presented at a lateral distance of 250 m from the lightning channel. It is seen that when the plume is touching the ground, the induced current on the vehicle at the tail, middle and nose sections are marginally more than when the vehicle and its exhaust are at a height of 10 m above the ground. The effects of different parameters such as peak value and maximum di/dt of lightning current, velocity of lightning current, lateral distance of the vehicle from lightning channel and the height of the tip of the exhaust plume above the ground on the induced current and voltage on the airborne vehicle have also been studied. The peak amplitude of the lightning current used are 30 kA and 100 kA in addition to 12 kA mentioned earlier for the field computation. Also maximum di/dt values of 40 kA/µs and 120 kA/µs for the lightning current have been used for the computation. It is observed that the induced current increases with increase of the peak value, maximum di/dt as well as the velocity of propagation of the lightning current where as the induced current will reduce with increase of lateral distance and height of the tip of the exhaust plume above the ground. As an offshoot of the present work, the axial and radial distribution of the parameter, σe/ωεe (loss tangent of the exhaust plume) for an incident electromagnetic wave (lightning electromagnetic field) frequency of 1 MHz have been computed to study the conducting properties of the exhaust plume. σe/ωεe of the exhaust plume at 1 MHz frequency varies from 2324 to 365. Since σe/ωεe >>1, the plume behaves as a good conductor and the displacement currents can be neglected. In addition to this, the variation of parameter σe/ωεe for frequency ranges of 0.1 MHz to 5 GHz are also studied where σe and εe are the maximum effective conductivity and permittivity of the exhaust plume at the chosen frequency of an incident EM wave. It shows that the parameter σe/ωεe is 1.8x104 at 0.1 MHz and reduces to 0.45 for 5 GHz and its value is 1 at a frequency of 2.285 GHz. Therefore at lower EM wave frequency, the exhaust plume behaves as a good conductor and that conductivity reduces with increase of the frequency. The exhaust plume in the present study behaves as a good conductor below or at the EM wave frequency of 2.285 GHz. The microwave attenuation of electromagnetic wave through the ionized plume (the angle of incidence of microwave is 90o and transmission of microwave is always transverse to the exhaust plume) has also been studied using the above electrical characteristics computed and it is seen that the attenuation follows the axial variation in the conductivity of each cross section of the plume. In the present work, a theoretical model has also been developed to compute the microwave attenuation through the vehicle exhaust plume using the electrical conductivity computed earlier for any angle of incidence of the microwave. The thesis also lists some additional topics for further studies.

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