Space based sensors enable continuous observations of the convective activity over the whole earth. The ORAGES mission is designed to locate and detect the VHF emissions of lightning from space with a storm scale resolution. The altitude of the orbit will be at 700-800 km with an inclination of 20-25°...
During the lightning strike to an aircraft in flight, the lightning channel gets deformed in the aerodynamic flow and displaced along the aircraft, a so-called swept stroke. To be able to correctly determine the different levels of hazards on an aircraft zoning, the physical behavior of the lightning swept stroke...
During lightning strikes to aircraft in flight, the lightning channel gets deformed in the airflow and displace along the aircraft, a so-called wept stroke. In this paper a model of the thermodynamic evolution of lightning channels during their continuous current phase is developed and numerically solved. In this model, the...