Lightning Engineering: Physics, Computer-Based Test-Bed, Protection of Ground and Airborne Systems

This book gives a contemporary and comprehensive overview of the physics of lightning and protection systems, based on nearly 40 years of research, teaching, and consultancy work in this area.

The book begins with an overview of the climatology of lightning and electric storms, as well as giving insight into lightning discharge from the preliminary discharges or processes such as corona, stepped leader, and subsequent return strokes, including the important submicrosecond threats and continuous current. The subsequent chapters present measures of lightning threat analysis to aircraft and electric power systems, protection measures to be used in high-voltage to low-voltage computer and communication systems, as well as to commercial and domestic buildings. The book discusses challenges posed by the submicrosecond lighting current changes and climate change to present and future high-voltage apparatus and structures (including carbon composite aircraft and new buildings) exposed to lightning strikes.

Including worked examples, illustrations, and detailed analysis, Lightening Engineering will be of interest to electrical engineers, as well as researchers and graduate students.

這本書提供了關於閃電物理和保護系統的現代和全面的概述，基於近40年在這個領域的研究、教學和諮詢工作。書籍首先概述了閃電和電暴的氣候學，並深入探討了閃電放電的初步放電或過程，如電晕、階梯領導者和隨後的回擊，包括重要的亞微秒威脅和持續電流。接下來的章節介紹了對飛機和電力系統的閃電威脅分析措施，以及在高壓到低壓的電腦和通信系統，以及商業和住宅建築中應該使用的保護措施。本書還討論了亞微秒閃電電流變化和氣候變化對現有和未來高壓設備和結構（包括碳纖維複合材料飛機和新建築物）的挑戰。

《閃電工程》包括了實例、插圖和詳細分析，將對電氣工程師、研究人員和研究生有興趣。

Prof. Paul R.P. Hoole was born in Jaffna, Sri Lanka. After having his basic schooling in Jaffna, he earned all his degrees, first to postgraduate degrees, in the UK. He holds an M.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering with a Mark of Distinction from the University of London and an M.Sc. degree in Plasma Science from the University of Oxford. His doctorate, the DPhil. degree, is from the University of Oxford. In his engineering career, he has spent time in Singapore, Papua New Guinea, USA, Sri Lanka, and Malaysia. Since the nineteen eighties, he has done extensive research in the field of lightning engineering, lightning interaction with aircraft, and lightning electromagnetics, and worked with the lightning consultancy group at the Culham Laboratory, Oxford. He has also consulted in the areas of lightning protection of the airport, telecommunication systems, and the electric power gird. His published research is in the areas of electromagnetic wireless communication/navigation antennas, electromagnetic brain technology and science, climate electromagnetics, and lightning-power systems and lightning-aircraft electrodynamics. He is married to Chrishanthy, a medical doctor. Beyond the time he devotes to engineering teaching and research, he and his wife engage with poor families and their school children in providing non-profit educational, medical, and personal development assistance.

Prof. Samuel R. H. Hoole, B.Sc. Eng. Hons Cey., M.Sc. with Mark of Distinction London, Ph.D. Carnegie Mellon, D.Sc. (Eng) London, has been a teacher and researcher in electrical engineering at several institutions in the USA, including Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Michigan State University, Drexel University, and Harvey Mudd College. For his accomplishments in electromagnetic product synthesis, the University of London awarded him its higher doctorate, the D.Sc. (Eng.) degree, in 1993, and the IEEE elevated him to the grade of Fellow in 1995. He is presently Life Fellow. He has been Vice Chancellor of University of Jaffna in Sri Lanka and as Member of the University Grants Commission there, and was responsible with six others for the regulation of the administration of all 15 Sri Lankan universities and their admissions and funding. He has contributed widely to the learned literature on Tamil studies and been a regular columnist in newspapers. He has been trained in Human Rights Research and Teaching at The René Cassin International Institute of Human Rights, Strasbourg, France, and has pioneered teaching human rights in the engineering curriculum.

Prof. Paul R.P. Hoole教授出生於斯里蘭卡賈夫納。在賈夫納完成基礎教育後，他在英國獲得了所有學位，從學士到研究生學位。他擁有倫敦大學電機工程學碩士學位（成績優異）和牛津大學等離子科學碩士學位。他的博士學位（DPhil.）來自牛津大學。在他的工程職業生涯中，他曾在新加坡、巴布亞新幾內亞、美國、斯里蘭卡和馬來西亞工作。自1980年代以來，他在閃電工程、閃電與飛機的相互作用以及閃電電磁學領域進行了廣泛的研究，並在牛津的Culham實驗室閃電諮詢小組工作。他還在機場閃電防護、電信系統和電力網格等領域提供諮詢服務。他的發表研究涉及電磁無線通信/導航天線、電磁腦科技和科學、氣候電磁學以及閃電電力系統和閃電飛機電動力學。他與醫生Chrishanthy結婚。除了致力於工程教學和研究外，他和妻子還與貧困家庭及其學童合作，提供非營利性的教育、醫療和個人發展援助。

Prof. Samuel R. H. Hoole教授擁有斯里蘭卡資深工程學士學位（榮譽），倫敦大學電機工程學碩士學位（成績優異），卡內基梅隆大學博士學位，倫敦大學工程學博士學位（D.Sc. (Eng.)）。他曾在美國的幾所學院擔任電機工程師的教師和研究員，包括倫斯勒理工學院、密歇根州立大學、德雷克塞爾大學和哈維穆德學院。由於在電磁產品合成方面的成就，倫敦大學於1993年授予他其更高的博士學位，即工程學博士學位（D.Sc. (Eng.)），並於1995年IEEE將他晉升為Fellow。他目前是終身Fellow。他曾擔任斯里蘭卡賈夫納大學副校長和大學教育委員會委員，負責監管所有15所斯里蘭卡大學的行政管理、招生和資金。他在泰米爾研究領域廣泛貢獻，並在報紙上定期撰寫專欄。他在法國斯特拉斯堡的René Cassin國際人權研究所接受了人權研究和教學培訓，並在工程課程中開創了人權教學。