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Numerical computation of the lightning response of an earth-covered munitions storage bunker and comparison with experiments
This paper presents recent progress in using finite-difference analysis codes to simulate the responses of complex structures due to direct lightning. Significant advances have been made in interfacing a finite-difference code with commercial computer aided design tools, in suppressing a pervasive instability associated with the thin-wire algorithm for modeling conductors much smaller than a cell size, and in visualizing the results with color movies. Preliminary comparisons between the results of the finite-difference code and the results obtained during a recent rocket-triggered lightning test are also presented. 3 refs.