COMPUTATIONAL SIMULATION OF ELECTRIC FIELDS SURROUNDING POWER TRANSMISSION AND DISTRIBUTION LINES

Abstract

A numerical technique is presented for computing the potential distributions surrounding power transmission and distribuhon lines of complex geometry. The technique employs a finite difference solution using boundary-fitted coordinates. A newly developed finite difference solver code is coupled with the existing EAGLE grid generation code to yield a system capable of solving for the electric potential andfield distributions surrounding complex configurations. A code validation example is presented which consists of a sphere-to-ground electrostatic solution. Sample results are also presented for a distribution line model. [Vol. 8, No. 2 (1993), pp 4-16]