Research Article

A Stochastic Analysis of the Transient Current Induced along the Thin Wire Scatterer Buried in a Lossy Medium

Table 1

Description of three test cases with deterministic and random parameters (see Figures 1 and 2).

Test case #Deterministic parameters⁢Random parameters
RV1RV2RV3

()Burial depth
Electrode diameter
Soil permittivity, permeability
Equivalent source excitation
Soil conductivity, uniformly distributed between 1 and 10 mS/mElectrode length, uniformly distributed between 45 and 55 m

()Burial depth
Electrode diameter, length
Soil permittivity, permeability, conductivity
Lightning front times, uniformly distributed between 0.4 and 4 sLightning time-to-half, uniformly distributed between 50 and 70 s

()Electrode diameter
Soil permittivity, permeability
Plane wave source
Soil conductivity, uniformly distributed between 1 and 9 mS/mElectrode length, uniformly distributed between 9.5 and 10.5 mBurial depth, uniformly distributed between 2.5 and 5.5 m