A circuit human body model for an indirect lightning strike analysed by means of an FDTD method

Author

Alrim, V.A. ; Amanatiadis, Stamatios A. ; Lalas, A.X. ; Antonopoulos, C.S.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece

fYear

2014

fDate

March 31 2014-April 1 2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

In the present paper, a simplified human body, stroked by a lightning touch voltage, is implemented via lumped elements and analysed through the finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method. The results, so extracted, are compared with those of an electronic circuit simulator. Furthermore, the current induced to the human body in the vicinity of a lightning stroked object, is accurately calculated by the FDTD algorithm, which overwhelms the circuit modeller that is unable to simulate non-contact scenarios.

Keywords

bioelectric phenomena; biological effects of fields; finite difference time-domain analysis; lightning; networks (circuits); physiological models; FDTD Method; circuit human body model; circuit modeller; electric current; electronic circuit simulator; finite-difference time-domain method; indirect lightning strike analysis; lightning stroked object; lightning touch voltage; lumped elements; noncontact scenario simulation; FDTD; Lightning; circuit model; human body;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

iet

Conference_Titel

Computation in Electromagnetics (CEM 2014), 9th IET International Conference on

Conference_Location

London

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-84919-817-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1049/cp.2014.0177

Filename

6826806