U.S.-Switzerland Cooperative Research in the Modeling of Lightning

该奖项支持Martin a . Uman教授和他佛罗里达大学研究小组的几名年轻成员与瑞士洛桑联邦理工学院电能研究实验室的Michel Ianoz教授和其他人合作研究闪电的行为。他们将研究回击的建模以及这些模型在近距离雷击水平电力线耦合中的应用。该研究计划扩大并加强了乌曼博士与该小组以及意大利博洛尼亚大学和罗马大学的其他小组正在进行的合作研究。它利用了美国和瑞士研究小组1991年在美国宇航局肯尼迪航天中心使用瑞士设备获得的测量结果。合作者还计划从进一步的联合实验中收集更多的数据。这项研究将促进对闪电及其可能的电磁相互作用的基本认识。它的应用对美国和其他地方的电力分配系统特别重要。它将三个非常强大的研究小组联系在一起，并为佛罗里达大学乌曼博士研究小组的研究生和博士后提供了一个出色的培训机会。

This award supports Professor Martin A. Uman and several junior members of his research group at the University of Florida to collaborate in a study of the behavior of lightning with Professor Michel Ianoz and others of the Laboratory of Electrical Energy Research, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland. They will carry out research in the modeling of return strokes and the applications of these models to horizontal power line coupling of close lightning strokes. The research plan expands and enhances Dr. Uman's ongoing cooperative research with this group and others at the Universities of Bologna and Rome, Italy. It makes use of measurements obtained by the U.S. and Swiss research groups at the NASA Kennedy Space Center in 1991, using Swiss equipment. The collaborators also plan to collect more data from further joint experiments. This research will advance basic knowledge about lightning and its possible electromagnetic interactions. Its applications are of particular importance to electric power distribution systems in the United States and elsewhere. It links three very strong research groups and provides an outstanding training opportunity for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows in Dr. Uman's research group at the University of Florida.